Literature and Languages
Staff Information
Dr Katie Halsey
Books
Jane Austen and her Readers (London: Anthem; forthcoming).
- (ed.) The Complete Works of Jane Austen (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008).
- (ed. with Jane Slinn) The Concept and Practice of Conversation in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1688-1847 (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007).
- (ed. with Rosalind Crone and Shafquat Towheed) The History of Reading: A Reader (London: Routledge; forthcoming 2010).
- (ed. with W.R. Owens)
Articles and Chatpers
- ‘“Folk stylistics” and the history of reading: a discussion of method’, Language and Literature 18.3 (2009), 231-246.
- ‘Reading the Evidence of Reading’,Popular Narrative Media, 2 (2008), 123-137.
- ‘“Critics as a Race are Donkeys”: Margaret Oliphant, Critic or Common Reader?’, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 2 (2007), 42-69.
- ‘The Blush of Modesty or the Blush of Shame? Reading Jane Austen’s Blushes’, Forum for Modern Language Studies, 42.3 (July 2006), 226-238.
- ‘Spectral Texts in Mansfield Park’, in British Women’s Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century: authorship, politics and history, eds Cora Kaplan and Jennie Batchelor (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), pp. 48-61.
- ‘Percy Bysshe Shelley and Theories of Language: A Discussion’, Keats-Shelley Review, 16 (2002), 22-30.
- ‘“Tell me of some booklings”: Mary Russell Mitford and female literary networks’, in special issue of Women’s Writing, guest eds Kate Astbury, Hilary Brown and Gillian Dow, forthcoming 2009.
- ‘“Faultless herself, as nearly as human nature can be”: the construction of Jane Austen’s public image, 1817 – 1917’ in Beautiful Objects: Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity, eds Ann Hawkins and Maura Ives (Farnham: Ashgate, forthcoming 2010).
- ‘“Gossip” and “Twaddle”: common readers make sense of Jane Austen’, in Beth Palmer and Adelene Buckland (eds) A Return to the Common Reader: Print, Culture and the Novel, 1850-1900 (Farnham: Ashgate; forthcoming 2010).
- ‘Examining the evidence of reading: three examples from the Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945’ (co-authored with Shafquat Towheed and Rosalind Crone), in Bonnie Gunzenhauser (ed.), Reading in History: New Methodologies from the Anglo-American Tradition (London: Pickering & Chatto; forthcoming 2010).
- ‘“Something light to take my mind off the war”: readers in the second world war’, in Katie Halsey and W.R. Owens (eds), The History of Reading: The British Isles c. 1750-1950 (Basingstoke: Palgrave; forthcoming 2011).
Forthcoming