Professor Robert Douglas-Fairhurst: List of publications
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The Turning Point A Year in the Life of Charles Dickens
September 2021
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Book
This formative year will become perhaps the greatest turning point in Dickens's career, as he embraces his calling as a chronicler of ordinary people's lives, and develops a new form of writing that will reveal just how interconnected the ...
The Comedian as the Letter C: Wit in Martin Chuzzlewit
October 2019
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Chapter
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Reading Victorian Literature
The Collected Peter Pan
September 2019
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Scholarly edition
'To die will be an awfully big adventure.'
Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children's literature. J. M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living in secret with the birds and fairies in the middle of London, but as the children for whom he invented the stories grew older, so too did Peter, reappearing in Neverland, where he was aided in his epic battles with Red Indians and pirates by the motherly and resourceful Wendy Darling.
Peter Pan has become a cultural icon and symbol for escapism and innocence, remaining popular with both children and adults.
In this collected edition, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst brings together five of the main versions of the Peter Pan story, from Peter Pan's first appearance in The Little White Bird, to his novelisation of the story, the stage version, and unrealised silent film script.
This edition contains a lively introduction, detailed explanatory notes, original illustrations, and appendices that include Barrie's coda to the play that was only performed once.
A Tale of Two Cities
February 2016
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Scholarly edition
5005 Theology, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies, 4705 Literary Studies, 47 Language, Communication and Culture
Working through memory and forgetting in Victorian literature
January 2016
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Journal article
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Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies
“There is a goddess of Memory, Mnemosyne; but none of Forgetting,” Richard Holmes writes in ‘A Meander Through Memory and Forgetting’, “Yet there should be, as they are twin sisters, twin powers, and walk on either side of us, disputing for sovereignty over us and who we are, all the way until death” (95). It is hard to avoid the Victorian Mnemosyne, who makes regular guest appearances in the period’s photography and art (Julia Margaret Cameron and Dante Gabriel Rossetti both produced works with the title Mnemosyne), but we should also remember her shadowy twin. For if the nineteenth century was busy with writers exploring memory’s lurking tenacity and shaping force, the same writers were equally attracted to its unpredictable lapses and blind spots. Throughout the period these twin powers worked closely together, quarrelling or collaborating, and for many writers this was not only a matter of psychological or philosophical enquiry. It was also a matter of style.
The Story of Alice
January 2015
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Book
Drawing on numerous unpublished sources, the author examines the peculiar friendship between Oxford mathematician Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories, and analyzes how this relationship stirred ...
Biography & Autobiography
Dickens and the Line of Beauty
December 2014
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Chapter
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The invention(s) of Charles Dickens: riletture, revisioni e riscritture
Dickens's Rhythms
January 2013
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Chapter
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Dickens's Style
The Water-Babies
January 2013
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Book
Address
January 2012
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Chapter
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The Oxford Handbook to Victorian Poetry
Becoming Dickens
October 2011
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Book
Looks at Charles Dickens' early life before, and as, he established himself as a novelist, explaining how he was uncertain as to which career path to follow and describing the many struggles he had early on.
Biography & Autobiography
London Labour and the London Poor: A Selected Edition
November 2010
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Book
Originally published: Ware: Wordsworth Editions, 2008.
Social Science
Tennyson
April 2010
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Chapter
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The Cambridge History of English Poetry
Literary Criticism
Charles Dickens
January 2010
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Chapter
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The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists
Introduction
January 2010
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Chapter
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Anthem Dictionary of Literary Terms and Theory
London labour and the London poor: A Selected Edition
January 2010
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Scholarly edition
Tennyson
January 2010
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Chapter
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The Cambridge History of English Poetry
Tennyson's Beginnings
January 2010
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Journal article
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Essays in Criticism: a quarterly journal of literary criticism
Tennyson Among the Poets
January 2009
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Book
Alexander Pope: renown'd in rhyme
April 2008
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Chapter
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Literary Milieux: Essays in Text and Context Presented to Howard Erskine-Hill
Drama
A.E. Housmann’s Rejected Addresses’
January 2008
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Journal article
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Proceedings of the British Academy
Great expectations
January 2008
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Book
5004 Religious Studies, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies, 3 Good Health and Well Being
Tragedy and Disgust
January 2007
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Chapter
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Tragedy in Transition
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books
September 2006
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Book
This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes the beloved "A Christmas Carol" and two other popular Christmas stories by Dickens, "The Chimes" and "The Haunted Man.
Fiction
I. A. Richards
February 2006
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Chapter
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Oxford Encyclopaedia of British Literature
A. C. Bradley’s Shakespearean Tragedy
January 2006
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Journal article
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The Use of English
Old Bags and 'the Old Style': A New Source for Beckett's Happy Days ?
December 2005
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Journal article
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Notes and Queries
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies
I. A. Richards's Practical Criticism
October 2004
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Journal article
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Essays in Criticism
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies
Young Tennyson and ‘Old Fitz’
November 2003
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Journal article
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Tennyson Research Bulletin
Making Sense of Victorian Endings: Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Middlemarch
January 2003
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Journal article
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The Use of English
Tennyson's Weeds
January 2003
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Chapter
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Victorian Shakespeare
Victorian Afterlives The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-century Literature
January 2002
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Book
Others contributed towards the cultural atmosphere they shared, in which shifty and overlapping ideas of 'influence' (from the seductive touch of the mesmerist to the contagious breath of the poor) becamecentral to attempts to work out how ...