Literature and Languages
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Dr Dale Townshend
Books
Townshend, Dale. The Orders of Gothic: Foucault, Lacan, and the Subject of Gothic Writing, 1764-1820. AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century, No. 54. New York: AMS Press, 2007.
Botting, Fred, and Dale Townshend, eds. Gothic: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies. 4 vols. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. [four volumes of Gothic criticism, from eighteenth century through to the present].
Townshend, Dale, ed. Manfroné: Or, The One-Handed Monk. 1807. By Mary Anne Radcliffe. Chicago: Valancourt Books, 2007. [scholarly edition of the novel, with an extended essay discussing the vexed issue of the novel’s authorship].
Drakakis, John and Dale Townshend, eds. Gothic Shakespeares. Accents on Shakespeare. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008.
Articles
Townshend, Dale. “Transgression, Writing and Violence in Romantic Gothic Fiction, 1794-1820.” Journal of Literary Studies, Vol. 13, Number 1 / 2 (June 1997): 151-1820.
Townshend, Dale. “Work and Text in the Later Writings of Roland Barthes.” Journal of Literary Studies, Vol. 14, Number 3 / 4 (December 1998): 392-430.
Townshend, Dale. “Constructions of Psychosis and Neurosis in Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho.” Pretexts: Literary and Cultural Studies. Volume 9, Number 2 (November 2000): 175-206.
Townshend, Dale. “Speaking of Darkness: Gothic and the History of the African American Slave-Woman in Hannah Crafts’s The Bondswoman’s Narrative (1855-1861).” Leeds Centre Working Papers in Victorian Studies: Victorian Gothic. Ed Karen Sayer and Rosemary Mitchell. Volume 6 (2003): 141-154.
Ballinger, Gill, Tim Lustig and Dale Townshend. “Missing Intertexts: Hannah Crafts’s The Bondswoman’s Narrative and African American Literary History.” Journal of American Studies 39 (2005): 207-237.
Townshend, Dale. “Gothic Visions, Romantic Acoustics.” Gothic Technologies: Visuality in the Romantic Era. Ed. Robert Miles. Romantic Circles Praxis (December 2005). http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/gothic/townshend/townshend.html
Townshend, Dale. “Gothic Panoptics and the Persistence of Torturous Enjoyment, 1764-1820.” Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, Vol. 37, Number 3 / 4 (Fall/Winter 2004): 395-432.
Townshend, Dale. “The Haunted Nursery, 1764-1830.” The Gothic in Children’s Literature: Haunting the Borders. Ed. Anna Jackson, Lisa Scally and Rod McGillis. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Townshend, Dale. “T. J. Horsley Curties and Royalist Gothic: The Case of The Monk of Udolpho (1807).” Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies. Issue 4 (June 2008). http://irishgothichorrorjournal.homestead.com/HorsleyCurtiesGothic.html
Townshend, Dale. “Gothic and the Ghost of Hamlet.” Gothic Shakespeares. Ed. John Drakakis and Dale Townshend. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008. 60-97.
Townshend, Dale. “Love in a Convent: Or, Gothic and the Perverse Father of Queer Enjoyment.” Queering the Gothic. Ed. William Hughes and Andrew Smith. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009. 11-34.
Townshend, Dale. “Improvement and Repair: Architecture, Romance and the Politics of Gothic, 1790-1817. Literature Compass. 8 (2011): 1-27.
Forthcoming
Townshend, Dale. “Royalist Historiography in T. J. Horsley Curties’s Ethelwina: Or, The House of Fitz-Auburn (1799). Gothic Studies. A Special Edition on Eighteenth-century Gothic edited by Angela Wright. Forthcoming 2011/12.
Townshend, Dale. “Gothic Shakespeare.” New Blackwell Companion to the Gothic. Ed. David Punter. Oxford: Blackwell. Final MS submitted; in press; forthcoming May 2012.
Townshend, Dale. “Conjuration and Exorcism: Byron’s Spectral Rhetoric.” Byron’s Ghosts. Ed. Gavin Hopps. Forthcoming 2012.
Townshend, Dale. Entries on “Doubles” (2000 words); “Charles Robert Maturin (2000 words) and Ann Radcliffe (4000 words) in Blackwell Encyclopaedia of the Gothic. Ed. David Punter, Andrew Smith and William Hughes. 2 vols. Oxford: Blackwell. Forthcoming 2012.
Townshend, Dale. “Shakespeare, Ossian and the Problem of ‘Scottish Gothic’. Renaissance Gothic. Ed. Elisabeth Bronfen and Beate Neumeier.