The Year's Work in English Studies

ISBN:9780199216390 ISSN: 0084-4144 Published for the English Association by Oxford University Press Electronic access available Publication Abbreviation Guide - free access

Published annually, The Year's Work in English Studies is the qualitative narrative bibliographical review of scholarly work on English language and on literatures written in English. The volume includes a detailed overview from Old English to contemporary critical works for a given year. It contains:

• critical notices of some 1100 books
• extensive coverage of English Language, English Literature, American Literature and New Literatures in English
• coverage of specialist periodicals (including volume numbers for journals and pagination of all articles cited)
• comprehensive indexing by critic, author and subject
• bibliographical endnotes for each chapter.

This is an essential volume for any scholar to use in order to keep up to date with the burgeoning world that is modern-day English criticism.

The Year's Work in English Studies is edited by Professor William Baker, Northern Illinois University, and Professor Kenneth Womack, Penn State Altoona.

Associate Editors: Kirstie Blair, University of Stirling; Matthew Creasy, Glasgow University;  A.S.G. Edwards, University of Kent;  Olga Fischer, University of Amsterdam; James Gifford, Fairleigh Dickinson University;  Katherine Halsey, Universit of Stirling; Theresa Saxon, University of Central Lancashire; Paul Sharrad, University of Wollongong, Australia; Richard Wood, Sheffield Hallam University.

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Current Issue: Volume 94

Covering work produced in 2014, published in October 2016

English Language

• General: Robert A. Cloutier, University of Amsterdam
• History of English Linguistics: Anita Auer, University of Lausanne
• Phonetics and Phonology: Radoslaw Swiecinski, University of Amsterdam
• Morphology and Syntax: Phillip Wallage, Northumbria University and Gea Dreschler, Vrie University Amsterdam
• Semantics: Beata Gyuris, Hungarian Academy of Science Budapest
• Lexicography, Lexicology and Lexical Semantics: Kathryn Allen, University College London
• Onomastics: Mackenzie Kerby, Northern Illinois University
• Dialectology and Sociolinguistics: Lieselotte Anderwald, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel
• New Englishes and Creolistics: Alexander Kautzsch, University of Regensburg
• Second Language Acquisition: Maja Milicevic, University of Belgrade and Tihana Kras, University of Rijeka
• English as a Lingua Franca: Elizabeth J. Erling, Claudio Schekulin, Veronika Thir, Barbara Seidlhofer and Henry Widdowson, University of Vienna
• Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis: Charlotte Taylor, University of Sussex
• Stylistics: Chloe Harrison, University of Coventry

Old English

• Bibliography; Literature General: Poems of the Vercelli Book: Christine Wallis, University of Sheffield
• Manuscript Studies, Palaeography and Facsimiles; Pomes of the Junius Manuscript; Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript:Simon Thomson, University College London
• Cultural and Intellectual Contexts; Prose: Eric Lacey, University of Winchester
• Poems of the Exeter Book; Other Poems: Victoria Symons, University College London

Middle English

• General and Miscellaneous; Other Alliterative Verse: Anne Baden-Daintree, University of Bristol
• Theory: Katie Walter, University of Sussex
• Manuscript and Textual Studies: Carrie Griffin, University of Bristol
• Early Middle English: Alastair Bennett, Royal Holloway, University of London
• Lyrics and Shorter Poems: Harriet Howes, Queen Mary University of London
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Patience, Cleanness; Religious Prose: Michelle M. Sauer, University of North Dakota
• Piers Plowman; Secular Prose: William Rogers, Case Western Reserve University
• Verse Romance; Holly Moyer, UCLA
• Gower: Yoshiko Kobayashi, University of Tokyo
• Hoccleve and Lydgate: Mary C. Flannery, University of Lausanne
• Older Scots: Kate Ash-Irisarri, Liverpool Hope University
• Drama: Daisy Black and Tamara Atkin, Queen Mary University of London

Chaucer

• General; Troilus and Criseyde; Reception and Reputation: Ben Parsons, University of Leicester
• The Canterbury Tales; Other Works: Natalie Jones, University College London

The Early Sixteenth Century

• General: Prose & Drama; General Verse;  More: Gavin Schwartz-Leeper, University of Sheffield
• General: Verse; Skelton; Surrey; Wyatt: Edward Smith, University of Sheffield

The Sixteenth Century: Excluding Drama after 1550

• General: Harriet Archer, Newcastle University
• Sidney; Spenser: Richard Wood, Sheffield Hallam University

Shakespeare

• Editions and Textual Studies: Gabriel Egan, De Montfort University
• Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter J Smith, Nottingham Trent University
• Shakespeare on Screen: Elinor Parsons, De Montfort University
• Criticism: General: Elisabetta Tarantino, University of Oxford
• Criticism: Problem plays: Danial Cadman, Sheffield Hallam University
• Criticism: Poetry: Arun Cheta, Sheffield Hallam University
• Criticism: Histories: Gavin Schwartz-Leeper, University of Sheffield
• Criticism: Tragedies: Johann Gregory, Cardiff University
• Criticism: Late Plays: Sheilagh Ilona O'Brien, University of Queensland
• Criticism: Comedies: Louise Geddes, Adelphi University

Renaissance Drama excluding Shakespeare

• Editions and Textual Matters: Eion Price, Swansea University
• Theatre History: Elizabeth Sharrett
• Criticism: General: Helen F. Smith, University of Edinburgh
• Marlowe: Per Sivefors, Linnaeus University, Sweden
• Jonson: Clare Whitehead, King's College London

The Earlier Seventeenth century

• Women's Writing: Amritesh Singh
• General: John R. Burton, University of Wales, Trinity St David
• Bacon, Browne, Burton: William Baker, Northern Illinois University

Milton and Poetry 1603-1660

• General: William Baker, Northern Illinois University
• Herbert: James Doelman, Brescia University
• Donne: Anne James, University of Regina
• Milton: Matthew Mroz, University of Connecticut

The Later Seventeenth Century

• Restoration Drama, excluding Dryden: Jennifer L. Airey, University of Tulsa
• Dryden: James Ogden, Independent Scholar
• Marvell: Elizabeth Bradburn, Western Michigan University
• Other Poetry; Prose: William Baker, Northern Illinois University

The Eighteenth Century

• Prose and General: Katherine Wakely-Mulroney, University of Cambridge
• Novel: James Smith, University of Exeter
• Poetry: Kerri Andrews, University of Strathclyde
• Drama: James Harriman-Smith, University of Cambridge

Literature 1780-1830: The Romantic Period

• General and Prose: Maxine Branagh-Miscampbell, University of Stirling
• The Novel: Eliza O'Brien, University of Newcastle
• Poetry: Matthew Ward, University of St Andrews and Paul Whickman, University of Derby
• Drama: Chrisy Dennis, Falmouth University

The Nineteenth Century: The Victorian Period

• General; Prose; Kristen Pond, Baylor University and William Baker, Northern Illinois University
• The Novel: Ariana Reilly, Utah Valley University, William Baker, Northern Illinois University and Michael Gilmour, Loughborough University
• Poetry: Clara Dawson, University of Birmingham, and Clare Stainthorp, University of Birmingham

Modern Literature

• General: Matthew Levay, Idaho State University
• British Fiction, 1900-1930: Andrew Radford, University of Glasgow
• British Fiction, 1930-1945: Michael Shallcross, Durham University
• Pre-1945 Fiction - Joyce: Chrissie Van Mierlo, University of Nottingham
• Pre-1945 Fiction - D.H. Lawrence, Luke Ferretter, Baylor University
• Pre-1945 Fiction - Virginia Woolf: Clara Jones, King's College, London
• Fiction 1945-2000: Hannah Tweed, University of Glasgow
• Fiction 2000-Present: Nick Bentley, Keele University
• Pre-1950 Drama: Rebecca D'Monte, University of the West of England
• Post-1950 Drama: Graham Saunders, University of Reading
• Poetry 1900-1950: Neil Miles, Sheffield Hallam University
• T.S. Eliot: Matthew Creasy, University of Glasgow
• Poetry Post-1950: Matthew Sperling, University of Reading
• Irish Poetry: Adam Hanna, University of Aberdeen

American Literature to 1990

• General: Katie McGettigan, University of Nottingham
• American Literature to 1900: Helena Goodwyn, Queen Mary University of London; Katie McGettigan, University of Nottingham; Rebecca White, Durham University

American Literature: The Twentieth Century

• Poetry: James Gifford, Fairleigh Dickinson University
• Fiction 1900-1945: James M. Clawson, Grambling State University
• Fiction Since 1945: Mary Catherine Foltz, Lehigh University
• Comics: Orion Kidder, Simon Fraser University
• Latino/a Writing: Jolene Armstrong, Athabasca University
• Native, Asian American  and General Ethnic Writing: James Gifford, Fairleigh Dickinson University; Lindsay Parker, Fairleigh Dickinson University

New Literatures in English

• Africa: West Africa, Adhu Krishnan, University of Bristol
• Africa: Eastern Africa: Tina Steiner, Stellenbosch University and Grace Musila, Stellenbosch University
• Africa: Southern: Margaret Daymond, University of KwaZulu-Natal
• Australia: Michael Griffiths and Paul Sharrad, University of Wollongong
• Canada: Paul Sharrad, University of Wollongong
• The Caribbean: Giselle Rampaul and Geraldine Skeete, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus
• South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent and Sri Lanka: Ira Raja, University of Delhi/Latrobe University and Mridula Nath Chakraborty, Monash Asia Institute, Melbourne
• New Zealand and Pacific: Dougal McNeill, Victoria University of Wellington
• Southeast Asia: Weihsin Gui, University of California, Riverside

Bibliography and Textual Criticism

• William Baker, Northern Illinois University