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Shafquat Towheed

Publications

Books

Ed. (with W.R. Owens), The History of Reading, Vol.1: International Perspectives, c.1500-1990 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011)

Ed. (with Rosalind Crone), The History of Reading, Vol.3: Methods, Strategies, Tactics (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011)

Ed. and contributor (With Nicola J. Watson), Romantics and Victorians (London: Bloomsbury, 2011)

Ed. (with Rosalind Crone and Katie Halsey), The History of Reading (Abingdon: Routledge, 2011)

Ed., Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Literary Edition, 2010).

Ed., The Correspondence of Edith Wharton and Macmillan, 1901-1930 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007).

Ed. and contributor, New Readings in the Literature of British India, c.1780-1947 (Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, 2007).

Ed. (with Mary Hammond), Publishing in the First World War: Essays in Book History (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007)

Chapters in Books

 ‘Negotiating the list: launching Macmillan’s Colonial Library and author contracts’ in John Spiers (ed.) The Culture of the Publisher’s Series: Nationalisms and the National Canon (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011)

‘Copyright and libel’ in Peter Melville Logan (ed.), The Encyclopedia of the Novel, Vol.1 (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), 212-219.

‘Examining the evidence of reading: three examples from the Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945’ (with Rosalind Crone and Katie Halsey), in Bonnie Gunzenhauser (ed.), Reading in History: New Methodologies from the Anglo-American Tradition (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010), 29-45.

‘“When the reading had to stop”: Readers, reading, and the circulation of texts in The Custom of the Country’ in Laura Rattray (ed.), Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country: A Reassessment (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010), 29-41.

Tools and techniques for literary research: using online and printed sources’ in Delia Da Sousa Correa and W.R. Owens (eds), The Handbook to Literary Research (Abingdon: Routledge, 2009), 9-35.

Territory, Space, Modernity: Elizabeth Bowen’s The Demon Lover and other stories and wartime London’ in Susan Osborn (ed.), Elizabeth Bowen: New Critical Perspectives (Cork: Cork University Press, 2009), 113-131.

Two Paradigms of Literary Production: a brief comparison of the production, circulation and legal status of Rudyard Kipling’s Departmental Ditties (1886) and Indian Railway Library texts.’ in Robert Fraser and Mary Hammond (eds.), Books without Borders, Vol II: Perspectives from South Asia. (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2008), 125-136.

Containing the poisonous text: decadent readers, reading decadence’ in Paul Fox (ed.) Decadences: Morality and Aesthetics in British Literature (Stuttgart: Ibidem Press, 2006), 1-31.

Articles in refereed journals

‘“Music is not merely for musicians”: Vernon Lee’s musical reading and response’, Yearbook of English Studies 40:1 (2010), 273-94.

Reading in the digital archive’, Journal of Victorian Culture 15:1 (2010), 139-43.

Reading History and Nation: Robert Louis Stevenson’s reading of William Forbes-Mitchell’s Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-9’, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 31:1 (2009), 3-17.

Geneva vs. St. Petersburg: two concepts of literary property and the material lives of books in Under Western Eyes’, Book History 10 (2007), 169-91.

The Creative Evolution of Scientific Paradigms: Vernon Lee and the Debate over the Hereditary Transmission of Acquired Characters’, Victorian Studies 49:1 (December 2006), 33-61.

“An Appreciative and Grateful Author”: Edith Wharton and the House of Macmillan’, Publishing History 58 (December 2005), 43-73.

Determining “fluctuating opinions”: Vernon Lee, “Popular” Fiction, and Theories of Reading’, Nineteenth-Century Literature, 60:2 (2005), 199-237.

Rudyard Kipling’s Literary Property, International Copyright Law, and The Naulahka ’, English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920 , 48:4 (2005), 420-435.

‘Reading the Life and Art of Hubert Crackanthorpe’, English Literature in Transition , 1880–1920, 43:1 (2000), 51–65.

‘A Chasm in the Narrative of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Green Tea”’, Notes and Queries 244:1 (March 1999), 67.

‘R. L. Stevenson’s Sense of the Uncanny: “The Face in the Cheval Glass”’, English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920 , 42:1 (1999), 23–38.

‘The Chronology of Charlotte Brontë’s Villette ’, Notes and Queries 243:2, (June 1998), 217–8.

‘W.E. Gladstone’s Reception of Robert Elsmere : A Critical Re-evaluation’, English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920 , 40:4 (1997), 389–97.

See also Open Research Online for further details of Shafquat Towheed’s research publications.

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