Professor%20Fiona%20Stafford: List of publications
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'Wood'
February 2024
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Romanticism on the Net
The Natural-Supernatural Solway
October 2021
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Journal article
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Studies in Scottish Literature
Explores, through discussion of Burns's letters from Annan Water on the Solway, and in his poems, Burns's treatment of the supernatural, specifically his references to treatment of Kelpies, the mythical Scottish waterhorses seen in the destructive force of Solway tides and storms, carrying this forward to the work of Allan Cunningham, including his story “Judith Macrone, the Prophetess” (1821) and his poem "The Mermaid of Galloway" (1810).
FFR
Coleridge's only tree: picturing the birch
June 2020
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Journal article
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Coleridge Bulletin
FFR
The cockle strand
June 2019
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Journal article
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Archipelago 12
November 2018
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Book
Home Front
November 2018
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Chapter
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Dead Ground: 2018-1918
Keats, Shoots and Leaves
September 2018
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Keats’s Places
As the essays in this volume reveal, Keats’s places could be comforting, familiar, grounding sites, but they were also shifting, uncanny, paradoxical spaces where the geographical comes into tension with the familial, the touristic with the medical, the metropolitan with the archipelagic. Collectively, the chapters in Keats’s Places range from the claustrophobic stands of Guy’s Hospital operating theatre to the boneshaking interior of the Southampton mail coach; from Highland crags to Hampstead Heath; from crowded city interiors to leafy suburban lanes. Offering new insights into the complex registrations of place and the poetic imagination, the contributors to this book explore how the significant places in John Keats’s life helped to shape an authorial identity.
English and Englishness
August 2018
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The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of British Romantic literature and an authoritative guide to all aspects of the movement including its historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts, and its connections with the literature ...
Literary Criticism
Memory, imagination, and the renovating power of trees
August 2018
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Journal article
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Philological Quarterly
Trees frequently feature in the early memories of writers and artists, judging by their autobiographical writings. This essay compares key childhood recollections by William Blake, A. S. Byatt, John Clare, Thomas Hardy, Seamus Heaney, Zaffar Kunial, Paul Nash, John Ruskin, and William Wordsworth in order to explore the recurrence and significance of tree memories. In these accounts, trees are often associated with moments of vision and a degree of alienation, which contribute to the self-realization of the writer as a creative being. At the same time, the longevity of trees and awareness of their separate, independent meaning for others enhances a sense of community, stretching into the past and future. The essay is a contribution to dendro-criticism and environmental humanities, using literary-critical methods to suggest a way of rethinking the relationship between humans and the nonhuman world.
The Long, Long Life of Trees
July 2017
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Book
A lyrical tribute to the diversity of trees, their physical beauty, their special characteristics and uses, and their ever-evolving meanings Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship with trees has many dimensions beyond mere practicality. Trees are so entwined with human experience that diverse species have inspired their own stories, myths, songs, poems, paintings, and spiritual meanings. Some have achieved status as religious, cultural, or national symbols. In this beautifully illustrated volume Fiona Stafford offers intimate, detailed explorations of seventeen common trees, from ash and apple to pine, oak, cypress, and willow. The author also pays homage to particular trees, such as the fabled Ankerwyke Yew, under which Henry VIII courted Anne Boleyn, and the spectacular cherry trees of Washington, D.C. Stafford discusses practical uses of wood past and present, tree diseases and environmental threats, and trees' potential contributions toward slowing global climate change. Brimming with unusual topics and intriguing facts, this book celebrates trees and their long, long lives as our inspiring and beloved natural companions.
Clare and the Splendid Sycamore
July 2017
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Journal article
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John Clare Society Journal
The Roar of the Solway
July 2017
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Coastal Works: Cultures of the Atlantic Edge
In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many important artists coastal space has figured as a site from which to braid ideas of empire, nation, region, and archipelago. They have been drawn to the coast as a zone of geographical uncertainty in which the self-definitions of the nation founder; they have been drawn to it as a peripheral space of vestigial wildness, of island retreats and experimental living; as a network of diverse localities richly endowed with distinctive forms of cultural heritage; and as a dynamically interconnected ecosystem, which is at the same time the historic site of significant developments in fieldwork and natural science.
This collection situates these cultures of the Atlantic edge in a series of essays that create new contexts for coastal study in literary history and criticism. The contributors frame their research in response to emerging conversations in archipelagic criticism, the blue humanities, and island studies, the essays challenging the reader to reconsider ideas of margin, periphery and exchange. These twelve case studies establish the coast as a crucial location in the imaginative history of Britain, Ireland and the north Atlantic edge. Coastal Works will appeal to readers of literature and history with an interest in the sea, the environment, and the archipelago from the 18th century to the present. Accessible, innovative and provocative, Coastal Works establishes the important role that the coast plays in our cultural imaginary and suggests a range of methodologies to represent relationships between land, sea, and cultural work.
Literary Collections
Jane Austen A Brief Life
July 2017
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Book
Every devoted reader feels that, in some way, they know Jane Austen. But how can we make sense of her extraordinary achievements? At a time when most women received so little formal education and none could obtain a place at university, how did Austen come to write novels that have commanded the attention of some of the most brilliant minds ever since? Why were hers the books that Darwin knew by heart and Churchill read during the Blitz? In this graceful introduction to the author's life and works, Fiona Stafford offers a fresh and accessible perspective, discussing Austen's six astonishing novels in the context of their time. Newly updated, Jane Austen: A Brief Life offers a rich and sympathetic insight into a writer who was just as much the Romantic genius as Keats, Shelley or Byron - full of youthful exuberance, intensely creative once she had found her individual voice, and dead before she reached middle age.
Biography & Autobiography
US National Christmas Tree: a symbol of peace, pride and power
November 2016
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Journal article
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Financial Times
The story of Major Oak, one of Britain’s most awe-inspiring trees
October 2016
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Journal article
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Financial Times
The story of hope behind Anne Frank’s tree — and how it lives on
October 2016
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Journal article
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Financial Times
Letters
October 2016
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Chapter
Landmarks, shelter, air filters – trees are our friends
August 2016
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Journal article
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The Guardian
Art and Poetry
January 2016
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In Focus: Pegwell Bay, Kent – a Recollection of October 5th 1858 ?1858–60 by William Dyce
John Clare’s Colours
July 2015
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New Essays on John Clare
John Clare (1793–1864) has long been recognized as one of England's foremost poets of nature, landscape and rural life. Scholars and general readers alike regard his tremendous creative output as a testament to a probing and powerful intellect. Clare was that rare amalgam ‒ a poet who wrote from a working-class, impoverished background, who was steeped in folk and ballad culture, and who yet, against all social expectations and prejudices, read and wrote himself into a grand literary tradition. All the while he maintained a determined sense of his own commitments to the poor, to natural history and to the local. Through the diverse approaches of ten scholars, this collection shows how Clare's many angles of critical vision illuminate current understandings of environmental ethics, aesthetics, Romantic and Victorian literary history, and the nature of work.
Literary Criticism
Wordsworth’s Poetry of Place
January 2015
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Chapter
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The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth
The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-eight original essays, by an international team of scholar-critics, to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism.
Literary Collections
Of Sea or River: Crabbe's Best Description
July 2014
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Journal article
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Romanticism
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The Moving Tide
January 2014
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Journal article
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Archipelago
Through Burns Country
January 2014
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Chapter
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The Magic Box
Lyrical Ballads 1798 and 1802
July 2013
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Book
This is the only edition to print both the original 1798 collection and the expanded 1802 edition, with Wordsworth's famous Preface. It includes important letters, a wide-ranging introduction and generous notes.
Fiction
What is the Language Using Us For?: Modern Scottish Poetry
December 2012
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Chapter
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The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO SCOTTISH LITERATURE Scotland's rich
literary tradition is a product of its unique culture and landscape, as well as of its
long history of inclusion and resistance to the United Kingdom. Scottish literature...
Literary Criticism
Burns and Other Poets
January 2012
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Book
Scottish poet, James Hogg, the English poet, William Wordsworth, and the Anglo-
Scot, Lord Byron. ... There is, of course, no question of this (or any other) volume
providing a definitive account of Burns's poetic reach; and neither are the ...
Literary Collections
Reading Romantic Poetry
January 2012
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Book
The Collapse of Distance: Heaney’s Burns and the 1990s
January 2012
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Burns and Other Poets
Scottish poet, James Hogg, the English poet, William Wordsworth, and the Anglo-
Scot, Lord Byron. ... There is, of course, no question of this (or any other) volume
providing a definitive account of Burns's poetic reach; and neither are the...
Literary Collections
The Collapse of Distance: Heaney's Burns in the 1990s
January 2012
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Burns and Other Poets
The Pastoral Elegy in the 1820s: The Shepherd's Calendar
January 2012
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Victoriographies
Romantic Macpherson
January 2011
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Chapter
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Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism
The Landscape of Ossian
January 2011
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The Obsidian Isle
Local Attachments: The Province of Poetry
January 2010
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Book
Burns and Romantic Writing
January 2009
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The Edinbugh Companion to Robert Burns
Persuasion: The Gradual Dawning
January 2009
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A Companion to Jane Austen
Scotland and Romanticism, Scotland in Romanticism
April 2008
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Chapter
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A Companion to European Romanticism
From Classic Unities to Natural Genius We owe some of the best Shakespearean
criticism ever written to the Romantics. Between 1808 and 1818, August Wilhelm
von Schlegel, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Hazlitt among others ...
Literary Criticism
Brief Lives: Jane Austen
January 2008
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Book
Local Attachments
January 2008
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Journal article
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Archipelago
'Plain Living and Ungarnish'd Stories': Wordsworth and the Survival of Pastoral
January 2008
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Journal article
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The Review of English Studies: the leading journal of English literature and language
A Scottish Renaissance: Two Generations of Scottish Poets, Edwin Morgan, Douglas Dunn, Liz Lochhead, and Robert Crawford, Kathleen Jamie and Don Paterson
December 2007
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The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry
These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century.
Literary Criticism
Writing on the Borders
April 2007
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Romanticism's Debatable Lands
This book uses the theme of 'debatable lands', to explore aspects of writing in the Romantic period. Walter Scott brought it to a wider public, and the phrase came to be applied to debates which were intellectual, political or artistic.
Literary Criticism
Imagined Solitudes: Wordsworth in Scotland, 1803
January 2007
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Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic
The book offers an exciting new map of the cultural geography of the Romantic era, and establishes a dynamic methodology for future comparative work.
Literary Criticism
Jane Austen's Emma A Casebook
January 2007
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Book
The essays collected in this casebook reflect changing opinions of Emma from its earliest reception to its established position in the literary canon.
Literary Criticism
England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales'
February 2005
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Romanticism: An Oxford Guide
Scottish Poetry and the Question of Regional Literary Expression
January 2005
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The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780
KAREN O'BRIEN is Reader in English Literature at the University of Warwick.
She is the author of Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from
Voltaire to Gibbon (1997), winner of the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay
Prize...
Literary Criticism
Collection and Selection: Poetry and Art for the Nation
January 2005
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Ireland and Scotland: Culture and Society, 1700-2000
Pride and Prejudice
January 2004
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Book
Striking Resemblances: National Identity and the Eighteenth Century Portrait
January 2004
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Eighteenth-Century Ireland
Emma
January 2003
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Book
The Edinburgh Review and the Representation of Scotland
June 2002
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British Romanticism and the Edinburgh Review Bicentenary Essays
These essays assess the controversial role played by the Edinburgh Review in the development of Romantic literature and explore its sense of 'Scottishness' in the context of early nineteenth-century British culture.
Literary Criticism
Starting Lines in Scottish, Irish, and English Poetry : From Burns to Heaney From Burns to Heaney
November 2000
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Book
Taking as a framework the history of relations between Ireland, England, and Scotland since the 1707 Union, the book explores such questions through a series of close readings.
Lodore: A Tale of the Present Time?
August 2000
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Mary Shelley's Fictions From Frankenstein to Falkner
With this collection, studies of this newly canonised Romantic period author enter a 'post-'Beyond- Frankenstein'' era.
Biography & Autobiography
Hugh Blair’s Ossian, Romanticism and the Teaching of Literature
June 1998
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The Scottish Invention of English Literature
This book is a comprehensive account of the historical origins of the university subject of English literature and provides a wealth of new material on its particular Scottish provenance.
Literary Criticism
Fingal and the Fallen Angels: Macpherson, Milton and Romantic Titanism
January 1998
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From Gaelic to Romantic Ossianic Translations
The essays in this collection represent an attempt by late twentieth-century readers to chart the cultural currents that flowed into Macpherson's texts, and to examine their peculiar energy.
Literary Criticism
From Gaelic to Romantic Ossianic Translations
January 1998
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Book
The essays in this collection represent an attempt by late twentieth-century readers to chart the cultural currents that flowed into Macpherson's texts, and to examine their peculiar energy.
Literary Criticism
Jane Austen
January 1998
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Literature of the Romantic Period A Bibliographical Guide
This book provides a selective, critical guide to the best and the most typical in scholarship and criticism on literature of the Romantic period, 1780-1830.
Literary Criticism
Lodore
January 1996
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Chapter
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The Novels and Selected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Primitivism and the “Primitive” Poet
January 1996
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Celticism
The volume collects papers from a multi-disciplinary workshop, held under the auspices of the European Science Foundation, which examined the idea of Celticism in its European contexts from the eighteenth century to the present.
History
The Last of the Race The Growth of a Myth from Milton to Darwin
January 1994
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Book
An innovative and wide-ranging study of the myth of the `Last of the Race' as developed in a range of texts from the late 17th to late 19th centuries.
Literary Criticism
DR JOHNSON AND THE RUFFIAN: NEW EVIDENCE IN THE DISPUTE BETWEEN SAMUEL JOHNSON AND JAMES MACPHERSON
March 1989
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Notes and Queries
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The Sublime Savage A Study of James Macpherson and the Poems of Ossian
January 1988
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Book
Literary Criticism
Diplomacy at the UN
January 1985
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Chapter
Conference organiser
Conference paper
Lice, Mice, Bumclocks, Grubs: The Challenge of Regional Language and the Legacy of Robert Burns