The Intellectual and Cultural World of the Early Modern Inns of Court, ed. by Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Goldring and Sarah Knight (Manchester University Press, 2011)

An interdisciplinary collection of essays on an important but overlooked aspect of early modern English life: the artistic and intellectual patronage of the Inns of Court and their influence on religion, politics, education, rhetoric, and culture from the late fifteenth through the early eighteenth centuries.

The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060-1220 (University of Leicester, School of English, 2010, e-book), by Orietta Da Rold, Takako Kato, Mary Swan and Elaine Treharne

From the conception of the project to the final delivery, we have identified, analysed and evaluated all manuscripts containing English written in England between 1060 and 1220

Textual Cultures: Cultural Texts, ed. with Elaine Treharne, special issue of Essays and Studies (Boydell & Brewer, 2010) by Orietta Da Rold  

The dynamic fields of the history of the book and the sociology of the text are the areas this volume investigates, bringing together ten specially commissioned essays that between them demonstrate a range of critical and material approaches to medieval, early modern, and digital books and texts.

Pat Barker (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), by Mark Rawlinson

This introduction places Barker's fiction in historical and theoretical contexts. Including a timeline of key dates and an interview with the author, Rawlinson establishes the cultural importance of her work and provides an overview of its critical reception.

The Domestication of Genius: Biography and the Romantic Poet (Oxford University Press, 2009), by Julian North

This is a book about the biographical afterlives of the Romantic poets and the creation of literary biography as a popular form. It focuses on the Lives of six major poets of the period: Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Landon, published from the 1820s, by Thomas Moore, Mary Shelley, Thomas De Quincey, and others.

Between Medieval Men: Male Friendship and Desire in Early Medieval English Literature (Oxford University Press, 2009), by David Clark

Between Medieval Men argues for the importance of synoptically examining the whole range of same-sex relations in the Anglo-Saxon period, revisiting well-known texts and issues (as well as material often considered marginal) from a radically different perspective.

Shakespeare and Victorian Women (Cambridge University Press, 2009), by Gail Marshall

Much has been written on the cultural significance of Shakespeare, his influence on particular periods, and his appropriation and subsequent transformation. However, no book until now has specifically addressed the nature of the relationship between Shakespeare and Victorian women.

Charles Lamb, Coleridge and Wordsworth: Reading Friendship in the 1790s (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), by Felicity James

Arguing for a reconsideration of Lamb's early Unitarianism and allegiances to radical Dissent, James explores his exciting and varied works of the 1790s against a backdrop of social and political change.

John Milton: Life, Work and Thought (Oxford University Press, 2008), by Gordon Campbell and Thomas Corns

This book re-examines scrupulously the writings and the life records of John Milton, in the context of a proper understanding of the recent developments in seventeenth-century historiography. Milton's thought has often been too simply described. The approach here is to interrogate more sceptically notions like puritanism, republicanism, radicalism, and dissent.

A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries (4 vols, Oxford University Press, 2004, 2004, 2009, 2010), by Julie Coleman

A complete history of the documentation of English cant and slang from 1567 to the present. It gives unparalleled insights into the early history of slang, the people who used it, and how and why it was recorded.

J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (Routledge, 2007), by Sarah Graham

This jargon-free study opens up ways of thinking about the novel, both in terms of wider context but also in close analysis.

Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability (Cambridge University Press, 2007), by Gowan Dawson

The success of Charles Darwin's evolutionary theories in mid-nineteenth-century Britain has long been attributed, in part, to his own adherence to strict standards of Victorian respectability, especially in regard to sex. Gowan Dawson contends that the fashioning of such respectability was by no means straightforward or unproblematic.