TEXTUAL PRACTICE

American fiction after postmodernism

Making it long: men, women, and the great American novel now

Aesthetic geometries of life

Metaffective fiction: structuring feeling in post-postmodern American literature

The true Spinoza of Market Street

Reading, investment, and guarantee: The Pale King and the authority of the modern literary archive

Spinoza, Kant and the sublime

The genrefication of contemporary American fiction

Illness and femininity in Hilary Mantel’s Giving Up the Ghost (2003)

Alice Liddell as the Beggar Maid, seen: seeing and not seeing the child in Charles Dodgson’s photograph

Public transit and urban poetics: Singapore’s Moving Words poetry project and anthology

Petrarch, Wyatt, and Surrey: sonnets, teleology, and sexuality

Disaffection and Realpolitik in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day

Re-treating the office empire: Henri Michaux’s Par des Traits and the coming barbarism

Melville, Whitman, and metonymy: towards a new poetics of community

‘His stones, his daughter, and his ducats’: the rhetoric of love and possession in early modern Europe

Introduction

‘Where all the paperwork’s done’: Pynchon’s critique of contracts

On the road with the blood of this kingdom: theology, economy, and blood in The Crying of Lot 49

Precarious bodies in Henry James’s What Maisie Knew

Deictic settings in Lisa Robertson’s The Weather

‘Within these tombes enclos’d’: Interring Renaissance love in Mary Sidney Herbert’s Antonius

Museum quality: Katherine Philips, Violet Trefusis, Vita Sackville-West and the queer early/modern

Notes on ‘Lichen’

The figure of Moses: the origins of authority in Spinoza

Love and dance as transformative powers

The impersonal personified: Emerson’s poet

Economies of greed in ‘late Pynchon’: America and the logic of capital

‘Woman-like complaints’: lost love in the first part of The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania

See it now: queer history and archival fantasy

Kant vs. Cant: Poe’s material sublime

Charles Olson changes objects: a reinterpretation of projective verse

The reality of the self in the priority of the other: Hawthorne, Levinas, and Winnicott

Labour’s loves? Isabella Whitney, Leonard Wheatcroft and the love miscellany

‘Ovid was there, and with him were Catullus, Propertius and Tibullus’: Catullus and the shaping of early Tudor love poetry

Spinoza and the ‘outsider’ prophet

Creating the ‘classless’ author: authorship and the social hierarchy, 1660–1800

Spinoza and musical power

Shifting vantage, common musings: the politics of Wordsworthian excursus in the poetry of Peter Riley

‘Not guilty in the sense of the indictment’: statelessness, rights, and literary form in Eichmann in Jerusalem

Tell the story of all this: the place of the fire in the hermeneutics of Derrida and Agamben

Violent authenticity: the politics of objects and images in Ishiguro

Lear volée: how letters killed the king

The New Alchemy: Economic liberalism, neoliberalism, and Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day1

American Pastoral’s crisis of humanism: hands, gloves and one colossal Turkey*

The belly philosophical: Melville, Nietzsche, and the ascetic ideal

Emily Dickinson and the question of ‘giving death’