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Publications

Single-Authored Books

  • Thinking Revolution. In Progress. This new transnational book project explores how literature 'thinks' the revolutionary event, both as theoretical concept and as historical reality.
  • The Novel of Defeat. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, under contract.
  • Revolutionary Subjects: A Radical History of the Bildungsroman. London: Verso, 2026. [Translations into Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Chinese, Italian and Swedish]
  • British Literature and the Life of Institutions: Speculative States. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. [Reviewed in Novel: A Forum on Fiction; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Studies in the Novel; Arcadia; The Wellsian; Textual Practice; Journal of Modern Literature; Victorian Studies; Modernism/modernity]
  • Committed Styles: Modernism, Politics, and Left-Wing Literature in the 1930s. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. [Reviewed in Times Literary Supplement; Review of English Studies; Literature and History; Modernist Cultures; Ostrava Journal; ZAA; Year's Work in English Studies; Twentieth-Century Literature]
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Edited Volumes

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  • Ed. (with Joseph E. Rosenberg) The Aesthetics of Failure. Special issue of Critical Quarterly. Forthcoming.
  • Ed. (with M. Taunton) The People: Belonging, Exclusion, and Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
  • Ed. (with Charlotte Jones) Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics after the Paris Commune: Communal Forms. Oxford: Oxford University Press, in preparation.
  • Ed. (with I. Perica) The Political Uses of Literature: Global Perspectives and Theoretical Approaches, 1920-2020. London: Bloomsbury, 2024.
  • Ed. (with I. Perica), Peripheral Europes. Special issue of Critical Quarterly 65.4 (2023).
  • Ed. (with Katrin Becker and Felix Sprang). British Fictions of Class since 1945: Revitalising Class in the Twenty-First Century. Special issue of Anglistik 34.1 (2023).
  • (Ed.) George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying. Oxford World's Classics, 2021.
  • Ed. (with M. Taunton) A History of 1930s British Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. [Books of the Year, Times Literary Supplement. Reviewed in: The Modernist Review, Textual Practice]
  • Ed. (with M. Taunton) Literatures of Anti-Communism. Special issue of Literature and History (Spring 2015).
  • Ed. Edward Upward and Left-Wing Literary Culture in Britain. London: Ashgate, 2013. [Reviewed in Times Literary Supplement; Review of English Studies; Literature and History; Key Words: The Journal of the Raymond Williams Society, SHARP News]
  • Ed. (with R. Gregory) Utopian Spaces of Modernism: British Literature and Culture 1885-1945. London: Palgrave, 2012. [Reviewed in Victorian Studies; Modernism/Modernity; Year's Work in English Studies]
  • Ed. (with M. Fludernik) Anglistentag 2011 - Proceedings. Trier: wvt, 2012.

Journal Articles

  • "Negative Solidarity: Mike Leigh and the Cinematic Afterlives of Thatcherism in the Early 1990s", under review.
  • “The Art of Failure: Disruption, Loss, Decline” (with Joseph E. Rosenberg), Critical Quarterly, forthcoming.
  • "Shades of Red", PMLA 140.2 (2025), 300-7.
  • "Revolutionary Pedagogy, Radical Bildung, and Left Weltliteratur (Goethe, Nizan, Ding, Godard)", Modern Language Quarterly 86:4 (2025), 353-78.
  • "Introduction" (with I. Perica), Peripheral Europes (special issue), Critical Quarterly 65.4 (2023), 3-12.
  • "Liberal". Victorian Literature and Culture 51.3 (2023), 447-51.
  • "Introduction" to Karl-August Varnhagen von Ense's "In the Sense of the Wanderers (1832)" [on the Left bildungsroman and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister novels], PMLA 138.1 (2023), 102-9.
  • "Reformist Reading: Reparative Critique, c.1900". Cusp: Late 19th-/Early 20th- Century Cultures 1.1, 8-17.
  • "Thatcherism's Ongoing Now." ASAP/Journal 8.1 (2023), 23-6.
  • “Slow Politics: H.G. Wells, Reform, and the Idea of the Welfare State”. Modern Fiction Studies 67.2 (2021), 342-65.
  • “Revolutionary Words: Perfect Languages and the Republican Imaginary around the Mid-Seventeenth Century”. Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 258.2 (2021), 366-85
  • "Sounding the Present: Crisis and Collective Voice in David Peace’s GB84". English Literary History 87 (2020), 829-54.
  • "Julien Green and the Murmur of the Sea: Literary Histories of Flotsam". Critical Quarterly 62.2 (2020), 54-68.
  • "Proletarian Modernism: Literature, Film, Theory". PMLA 134.5 (2019), 1056-75.
  • "'Plain and Positive Terms': The Idea of a Perfect Language in Early Modern Utopian Narratives". Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 59 (2018), 155-81.
  • "The Victorian Crisis of Laissez-Faire: George Eliot, Political Economy, and the Common Good", History of Political Economy 48:4 (2016), 681-704.
  • "Toward a History and Theory of the Socialist Bildungsroman", NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, 48:2 (2015), 167-89.
  • "What Is It Like to Be a Rat? Early Cold War Glimpses of the Post-Human", Textual Practice 28/4 (2014), 655-75.
  • “Awkward Moments: Melodrama, Modernism, and the Politics of Affect”, PMLA 128/2 (2013), 337-52.
  • “An Honest Decade: William Empson and the Ambiguities of Writing in the 1930s”, English Literary History 80/1 (2013), 221-49
  • "Edward Upward, W. H. Auden, and the Rhetorical Victories of Communism", Modernism/Modernity 20/2 (2013), 287-306.
  • “‘Men of Sobriety and Buisnes’: Pepys, Privacy, and Public Duty”, Review of English Studies 61/251 (2010), 553-71
  • “‘The Heritage of Symbolism’: Henry Green, Maurice Bowra, and English Modernism in the 1920s”, Modern Language Notes 124/5 (2009), 1188-1210
  • “‘Stand Still, True Poet That You Are!’ Remembering the Brownings, Imagining Memorabilia”, ZAA 57/2 (2009), 125-38

Book Chapters

  • "The Radical Bildungsroman: From Weltliteratur to World Revolution". In: The Routledge Companion to Red World Literature. Eds. Hunter Bivens and Anna Björk Einarsdottir. London: Routledge, forthcoming.
  • "Radical Conservatism? The Case of D.H.Lawrence". In: Literary Conservatism. Ed. Alex Murray. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, forthcoming.
  • “George Orwell and the ‘Auden Generation’. In: The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell. Ed. Nathan Waddell. Oxford: Oxford UP, 639-54.
  • “George Gissing: Idealism and Social Reform”. In: The Novel of Ideas. Ed. Rachel Potter and Matthew Taunton. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2025. 80-95.
  • "Introduction" (with Ivana Perica), The Political Uses of Literature: Global Perspectives and Theoretical Approaches, 1920-2020. London: Bloomsbury, 2024. 1-20.
  • "Symptoms: Literature and Activism before the 'Political Unconscious'." In: The Routledge Companion to Literature and Politics. Ed. Matthew Stratton. London: Routledge, 2023. 42-53.
  • "In Real Time: Phenomenologies of Precarity in Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet." In: Literary Representations of Precarious Work, 1840 to the Present. Ed. Bart Philippsen and Michiel Ries. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2021. 287-304.
  • "From Proletarianization to Precarization in New British Fiction". In: Precarity in British Literature and Culture. Ed. Emily J. Hogg and Peter Simonsen. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. 143-59
  • (with M. Taunton) "Introduction: The Long 1930s". A History of 1930s British Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2019. 1-14.
  • "Fashioning the 1930s". Cambridge Companion to British Literature in the 1930s. Ed. James Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2019. 224-38.
  • "Cognitive Sympathy and the Laissez-Faire Economy: Adam Smith and Harriet Martineau". Anglistentag 2017 - Proceedings. Trier: wvt, 2018. 135-44.
  • "Muße, Work, and Free Time: Nineteenth-Century Visions of the Non-Alienated Life". How to Do Things With Narrative: Theory and Practice. Ed. Jan Alber and Greta Olson. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. 187-204.
  • "'The End of Laissez-Faire': Literature, Economics, and the Idea of the Welfare State". Late Victorian into Modern, 1880-1920. Ed. Laura Marcus, Michèle Mendelssohn, and Kirsten Shepherd-Barr. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016. 448-62.
  • "Das Ich in der Revolte: Der Bildungsroman nach 1945 aus komparatistischer Perspektive". Vom 'unrettbaren' zum 'wiedergefundenen' Ich? Identitätsnarrative im 20. Jahrhundert. Ed. Heribert Tommek and Christian Steltz. Frankfurt: Lang, 2016. 145-63.
  • "'Possible Failures': Doris Lessing and Individual Formation in a Tragic Key". Anglistentag 2014 - Proceedings. Trier: wvt, 2015. 353-63.
  • "Christopher Isherwood and Edward Upward". The American Isherwood. Ed. Jim Berg and Christopher Freeman. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2015. 198-214.
  • "Versions of Working-Class Idleness: Non-Productivity and the Critique of Victorian Workaholism". Leisure, Idleness and Indolence in British Literature. Ed. Monika Fludernik and Miriam Nandi. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014. 195-214.
  • "Introduction". Edward Upward and Left-Wing Literary Culture in Britain. London: Ashgate, 2013. 1-18.
  • "Introduction". Utopian Spaces of Modernism: British Literature and Culture, 1885-1945. Ed. Rosalyn Gregory and Benjamin Kohlmann. London: Palgrave, 2012. 1-18.

Handbook and Dictionary Entries

  • “Thomas Love Peacock”, “Thomas Lovell Beddoes”, “Edmund Burke”. Encyclopaedia of Literary Romanticism. Ed. Andrew Maunders. New York, 2010
  • “Edward Upward”, Literary Encyclopedia, www.litencyc.com, 2010 [2500 words]

Reviews

  • Review of Paul Stasi, The Persistence of Realism in Modernist Fiction. Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 58.3 (2025), 165-70.
  • Review of Glyn-Salton Cox, Queer Communism and the Ministry of Love: Sexual Revolution in British Writing of the 1930s. Review of English Studies, 70 (2019), 391-3.
  • Review of Peter Stansky, Edward Upward: Art and Life. Woolf Studies Annual, 23 (2017), 199-202.
  • Review of Marius Hentea, TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara. Modernism/Modernity, 22/1 (2015), 206-8.
  • Review of Jock Macleod, Literature, Journalism, and the Vocabularies of Liberalism. ZAA, 61/1 (2014), 93-95.
  • Review of Jed Esty, Unseasonable Youth: Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development. Modernist Cultures, 9/2 (2014), 310-14.
  • Review of Ina Habermann, Myth, Memory, and the Middlebrow: Priestley, du Maurier, and the Symbolic Form of Englishness. ZAA, 61/1 (2013), 93-95.
  • Review of Kristin Bluemel, ed., Intermodernism: Literary Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain. Modernist Cultures, 6/1 (2011), 196-98
  • Review of Paul Crosthwaite, Trauma, Postmodernism, and the Aftermath of World War II, Modern Language Review, 105/2 (2010), 546-47

Translations

  • Poems by Silke Scheuermann. Inventory Journal (2014)
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