Book Chapters

The Oxford Handbook of Henry Fielding​

My book chapter, co-authored with Clark Lawlor: Natural and Medical Science will be published in print.

Editors: Thomas Keymer and Henry Power.

​Publisher: Oxford University Press.

Publication Date: TBC 2024 (Manuscript Submitted).

Myth and (Mis)Information: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture​

This collection draws together original scholarship from international contributors on a range of aspects of professional and semi-professional medical work and its relations to British culture. It combines a diverse spectrum of scholarly approaches, from medical history to book history, exploring literary and scientific texts, such as satiric poetry, essays, anatomies, advertisements, and the novel, to shed light on the mythologisation and transmission of medical (mis)information through literature and popular culture. It analyses the persuasive and sometimes deceptive means by which myths, as well as information and beliefs, about medicine and the medical professions proliferated in English literary culture of this period, from early eighteenth-century household remedies to the late nineteenth-century concerns with vaccination that are still relevant today.​

My book chapter: Studying in Solitude: Demythologising the Masculine Medical Monopoly with Jane Barker’s Galesia and Tobias Smollett’s Sagely will be published in print.

Editors: Clark Lawlor, Allan Ingram and Helen Williams. ​

​Publisher: Manchester University Press.

Publication Date: April 2024.

Tobias Smollett After 300 Years: Life, Writing, Reputation​

Tobias Smollett After 300 Years offers a collection of essays on one of the great literary figures of the eighteenth century. Drawing together the work of an international group of scholars, with a variety of critical approaches, the book examines aspects of Smollett’s life, writing and reputation on the three- hundredth anniversary of his birth.

My book chapter: “Such a Domestic Plague”?: The Silent Stewardship of Tabitha Bramble in Smollett’s ‘Humphry Clinker’ is published in print.

Editor: Richard J. Jones.

​Publisher: Clemson University Press.

Publication Date: 1st December 2023.

Public  Engagement

Channelling the Challenges of Chronic Illness:
​The Poetry of Susanna Blamire

TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) is a hub for intellectual collaboration and cross disciplinary research projects, based in the Humanities at the University of Oxford. I provided a brief article about the poet Susanna Blamire for Harriet McKinley-Smith's TORCH project (Re)Acting Romanticism: Women Writers and Disability.

My article: Channelling the Challenges of Chronic Illness: The Poetry of Susanna Blamire is published online.

​Publisher: TORCH, Oxford University.

Publication Date: 23rd March 2022.

​The article can be found online: on TORCH Oxford's website.

Reviews

Journal for Eigtheenth-Century Studies (JECS)
​Review: Kevin Siena's Rotten Bodies

My review for JECS on Kevin Siena's Rotten Bodies, a book which offers a fascinating look at how class was constructed physiologically and provides a new connection between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries and the ravages of plague and cholera, respectively.

My review was published both in print and online.

​Publisher: Wiley.

Publication Date: 5th March 2020.

The article is viewable online: on Wiley Online Library.