THE TRAMP IN BRITISH LITERATURE, 1850-1950
Shortlisted for the Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize, 2022.
"An extraordinarily comprehensive study of tramp writing [...] readable and authoritative" - The Times Literary Supplement.
"A fascinating and wide-ranging survey of tramp literature" - The Northern Review of Books.
"An immensely detailed account of the tramp in literary texts that span more than a century" - Dickens Quarterly.
"Always fascinating and [...] well worth reading" - The Orwell Society Journal.
"Essential reading" - Ambit Magazine.
"Uniquely informative and readable" - Prof. John Sutherland.
"An absorbing study, meticulously detailed and contextualised, on an important topic" - Prof. John Goodridge.
"Essential reading for anyone interested in the wider currents of working-class life writing and fiction" - Prof. Nick Hubble.
JOURNAL ARTICLES / BOOK CHAPTERS
“Representing the Poor: The Emergence of the ‘Point-of-View’ Mode in Interwar Documentary Film, Mass Observation and the Publications of Victor Gollancz Ltd.” Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 1–24.
"Representing the Tramp in British Interwar Social Exploration Literature: Frank Jennings, Frank Gray and George Orwell." English Studies (2022), DOI: 10.1080/0013838X.2022.2065155: 1-28.
“‘Progressing Backwards’: Rural Outsider Figures in Richard Jefferies, W.H. Hudson and Edward Thomas.” English Studies DOI: 10.1080/0013838X.2021.1997475 (2021): 1-26.
“Appropriating the Abject: Witchcraft in Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi’s Suspiria (1977) and David Kajganich and Luca Guadagnino’s 2018 Remake.” New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film 18-1&2 (2021): 43-59.
“Precarious Living in the Films of Ken Loach” in Living with Strangers: Bedsits and Boarding-houses in Modern English Life, Literature and Film (London: Bloomsbury, 2018): 145-160.
REVIEWS
“Alistair Robinson’s Victorian Vagrancy: A Cultural History of the Wandering Poor.” Journal of Victorian Culture (2022): Web. 23 May 2022.
“Consumerism, Waste, and Re-Use.” European Journal of American Studies 2 (2017): Web. 1 Aug. 2017.
“Luke Seaber’s Incognito Social Investigation in British Literature.” George Orwell Society Journal 11 (2016): 30-37.
“Robert Colls’ George Orwell: English Rebel.” George Orwell Studies 1 (2016): 112-121.