Milton, Dryden and Shakespeare; literature and politics; the epic tradition in English literature. Currently writing a book on Philip Pullman's use of Milton.
Emergent Nation: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1660-1714
In making a case for an early mimetically produced English nation, this book, through its concentration on literary evidence and transitions also makes innovative contributions to an understanding of nationalism in the period.
Literary Criticism
A Harmless Distemper: Accessing the Classical Underworld in Heywood’s The Silver Age
January 2018
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Epic Performances from the Middle Ages Into the Twenty-First Century
This volume represents the first systematic attempt to chart the afterlife of epic in modern performance traditions, with chapters covering not only a significant chronological span, but also ranging widely across both place and genre, ...
