Publications
Books
Queer Dickens: Erotics, Families, Masculinities (Oxford University Press, 2009).
- Read a review in THE (10/6/2010)
Dickens in Context, ed. by Sally Ledger and Holly Furneaux (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
John Forster’s Life of Charles Dickens, edited by Holly Furneaux (Sterling, 2011).
- This was listed in The Times 'Best Books About Dickens' (3 December 2011) and was selected in the Independent 'Best Dickens Biographies' (2 December 2011).
Special Issues
Dickens and Science, ed. by Holly Furneaux and Ben Winyard, special issue of 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (2010).
Dickens and Sex, special issue of Critical Survey, co-ed. by Holly Furneaux and Anne Schwan, 17.2 (2005).
Articles and Book Chapters
‘Dickens, Sexuality and the Body’, essay for ‘Dickens and Modernity’, special issue of Essays and Studies (English Association) ed. by Juliet John, forthcoming 2012.
‘Victorian Sexualities’, Literature Compass 8 (2011), pp767-775.
‘Inscribing Friendship: Forster’s Life of Dickens and the Writing of Male Intimacy in the Victorian Period’, ‘Lives in Relation’ special issue of Life Writing, ed. Amy Culley and Rebecca Styler 8.3 (2011), pp243-256.
‘Negotiating the Gentle-Man: Male Nursing and Class Conflict in the ‘High’ Victorian Period’ in Conflict and Difference in Nineteenth Century Literature, ed. by Dinah Birch and Mark Llewellyn (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010), pp109-125.
'Emotional Intertexts: Female Romantic Friendship and the Anguish of Marriage', Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies 14.2 (2009), pp25-37.
‘Charles Dickens’ Families of Choice: Elective Affinities, Sibling Substitution, and Homoerotic Desire’, Nineteenth Century Literature, 62.2 (2007), pp153-192.
‘“Hold the “Matrimonial Sauce”: The Celebration of Bachelorhood in Collins and Dickens’ in Wilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary Essays, ed. by Andrew Mangham, (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007), pp22-36.
‘Gendered Cover-ups: Live Burial, Social Death and Coverture in Mary Braddon's Fiction’, Philological Quarterly, 84.4 (2005), pp425-450.
‘“It is Impossible to be Gentler”: The Homoerotics of Male Nursing in Dickens’s Fiction’ in ‘Dickens and Sex’, special issue of Critical Survey, co-ed. by Holly Furneaux and Anne Schwan, 17.2 (2005), pp34-47.
‘“Worrying to Death”: Reinterpreting Dickens’s critique of the New Poor Law in Oliver Twist and Contemporary Adaptations’, Dickensian, 101.3 (2005), pp213-224.
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