Literature and Languages
Staff Information
Professor Neil Keeble
1. Studies
1 Richard Baxter: Puritan Man of Letters, Oxford English Monographs (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982), pp. xi + 217.
2 The Literary Culture of Nonconformity in later seventeenth-century England, (Leicester: Leicester University Press and Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1987), pp. xi + 356.
3 The Restoration: England in the 1660s (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), pp. xvii + 270.
2. Calendar
4 [with Geoffrey F.Nuttall] Calendar of the Correspondence of Richard Baxter, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), pp. xi + 433 & iii + 387.
3. Edited Titles
5 [guest editor], `The Metaphysical Tradition', language & literature, ii.3 (University of Copenhagen, 1974), pp. 88.
6 The Autobiography of Richard Baxter, Everyman's University Library (London: Dent, 1974; corrected rpt., Everyman History Classics, 1985), pp. xxx + 314.
7 John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, The World's Classics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984; rpt. 1986 (with corrections), 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 etc.), pp. xxxii + 301.
8 John Bunyan: Conventicle and Parnassus - tercentenary essays (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988), pp. x + 278.
9 A Handbook of English and Celtic Studies in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland (Stirling: Stirling University Press, 1988), pp. xiii + 379.
10 The Cultural Identity of Seventeenth-century Woman: a reader (London: Routledge, 1994), pp. xii + 306.
11 Lucy Hutchinson, Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Everyman's Library (London: Dent, 1995; corrected re-issue London: Phoenix press, 2000), pp. xxxii + 399.
12 Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. xxii + 296.
13 Daniel Defoe, Memoirs of the Church of Scotland, in P. N. Furbank and W. R. Owens (ed.), Writings on Travel, Discovery and History by Daniel Defoe, 8 vols., vol. 6 (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2002), pp. vi + 367.
14 John Bunyan: Reading Dissenting Writing (Bern: Peter Lang, 2002), pp. 276.
15 [Andrew Marvell], Remarks upon a Late Disingenuous Discourse, in Annabel Patterson et al. ( ed.), The Prose Works of Andrew Marvell, 2 vols. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003), pp. 101.
4. Short Works
16 'Loving & Free Converse': Richard Baxter in His Letters, Friends of Dr Williams's Library 45th Lecture (London: Dr Williams's Trust, 1991), pp. 24.
17 A Subject Index to the 'Calendar of the Correspondence of Richard Baxter, Dr. Williams's Library Occasional Paper (London: Dr. Williams's Trust, 1994), pp. 20.
5. Contributions: Symposia
18 'Christiana's Key: The Unity of The Pilgrim's Progress', in Vincent Newey (ed.), The Pilgrim's Progress: Critical and Historical Views (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1980), pp. 1-20.
19 `The Autobiographer as Apologist: Reliquiae Baxterianae (1696)', in Thomas Corns (ed.), The Literature of Controversy: Polemical Strategy from Milton to Junius ( London: Frank Cass, 1987), pp. 105-19.
20 `"Of him thousands daily Sing and talk": Bunyan and his Reputation', in N. H. Keeble (ed.), John Bunyan: Conventicle and Parnassus - tercentenary essays (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988), pp. 241-63.
21 `"The Colonel's Shadow": Lucy Hutchinson, women's writing and the Civil War', in Thomas Healy and Jonathan Sawday (ed.), Literature and the English Civil War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 227-48.
22 `"Here is her glory, even to be under him": The Feminine in the Thought and Work of John Bunyan', in Anne Laurence, W. R. Owens and Stuart Sim (ed.), John Bunyan and His England, 1628-88 (London: Hambledon Press, 1990), pp. 131-47.
23 `"I would not tell you any tales": Marvell's Constituency Letters', in Conal Condren and A.D. Cousins (ed.), The Political Identity of Andrew Marvell (London: Scolar Press, 1990), pp. 111-34.
24 'Obedient Subjects? the loyal self in some later seventeenth-century Royalist women's memoirs', in Gerald MacLean (ed.), Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration: literature, drama, history (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 201-18.
25 'The Politic and the Polite in Quaker Prose: the case of William Penn', in Thomas Corns and David Loewenstein (ed.), The Emergence of Quaker Writing: dissenting literature in seventeenth-century England (London: Frank Cass 1995), pp. 112-25.
26 '"Take away preaching, and take away salvation": Hugh Latimer, Protestantism and prose style', in Neil Rhodes (ed.), English Renaissance Prose: history, language and politics, Medieval & Renaissance Texts and Studies 164 (Tempe, Arizona : Medieval & Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1997), pp. 57-74.
27 'Why Transprose The Rehearsal?', in Warren Chernaik and Martin Dzelzainis (ed.), Marvell and Liberty (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999), pp. 249-68.
28 '"Till one greater man/ Restore us ...": Restoration Images in Milton and Bunyan', in David Gay, James G. Randall and Arlette Zinck (ed.), Awakening Words: Bunyan and the Language of Community (Newark: Delaware University Press, & London: Associated University Presses, 2000), pp. 27-50.
29 'Milton and Puritanism', in Thomas N. Corns (ed.), Blackwell Companion to Milton (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), pp. 124-40.
30 'To "build in sonnets pretty roomes"?: Donne and the Renaissance love lyric', in A.D. Cousins and Damian Grace (ed.), Donne and the Resources of Kind (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, and London: Associated University Presses, 2002), pp. 71- 86.
31 '"To be a pilgrim': Constructing the Protestant Life in Early Modern England', in Colin Morris and Peter Roberts (ed.), Pilgrimage: the English Experience from Beckett to Bunyan, c.1100-1700 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 238-56.
32 'Wilderness Exercises: Adversity, Temptation and Trial in Paradise Regained' , in Donald R. Dickson and Holly Faith Nelson (ed.), Of Paradise and Light: Essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton in Honor of Alan Rudrum (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004), pp. 142-64.
33 '"Take heed of being too forward in imposeing on others": Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Baxterian Tradition', in John Marshall and David Loewenstein (ed.), Heresy in Early Modern English Culture, 1530-1700 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2006?)
34 'Puritan Literature', in John Coffey and Paul Chang-ha Lim (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2007?)
6. Contributions: Dictionaries and Reference Works
35 'Richard Baxter', 'John Bunyan' and 'Puritan Spirituality', in Gordon Wakefield (ed.), Dictionary of Christian Spirituality (London: S.C.M. Press, 1983), pp. 38-9 , 62-3, 323-6.
36 `John Ronald Reuel Tolkien', in Alan Bullock & R. B. Woodings (ed.), The Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought (London: Fontana, 1983), p. 761.
37 'Astrophel and Stella', ' The Changeling', ' Dr. Faustus', 'The Pilgrim's Progress', 'Samson Agonistes', 'The White Devil', in D.L. Kirkpatrick (ed.), Reference Guide to English Literature, 3 vols. (London: St James Press, 1991), pp. 1473, 1510-11, 1548-9, 1777-8, 1829-30, 1940-1.
38 'John Bunyan' and 'George Fox', in Andrew Pyle (ed.), Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century British Philosophers, 2 vols. (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2000), pp. 0000.
39 'Hugh Latimer', in Arthur F. Kinney and David W. Swaim (ed.), Tudor England: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland, 2001), pp. 422-4.
40 'John Bunyan', in Selina O'Grady and John Wilkins (ed.), Spiritual Stars of the Millennium (London: Continuum, in association with The Tablet : 2001), pp. 84-6.
41 'Richard Baxter', The Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary, http://www.litencyc.com/, 2003
42 'James Janeway', 'Matthew Sylvester', in Colin Matthew and Brian Harrison (gen. ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004) [revised articles], s.vv.
43 'Benjamin Agas', 'Theodosia Alleine', 'William Allen', 'Edward Bagshaw the Younger', 'Richard Baxter', 'Anne Bradstreet', 'John Corbet', 'Giles Firmin', 'Thomas Jacombe', 'Samuel Woodford', in Brian Harrison (gen. ed.) & John Morrill (consultant ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004) [new articles], s.vv.
44 'Earlier Seventeenth-century Religious Prose', and 'Restoration Religious Prose', in Douglas Sedge (ed.), The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature , vol. ii, 3 rd edn. (Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
45 'George Abbot', 'Robert Abbot', 'Moise Amyraut', 'The Antichrist', 'Blasphemy', 'Henry Barrow', 'Samuel Barrow', 'John Bastwick', 'Richard Baxter', 'Pacification of Berwick', 'John Biddle', 'Black Bartholomew Day', 'Book of Common Prayer', 'Booth's Rebellion', 'William Bradshaw', 'John Bramhall', 'Declaration of Breda', 'John Bunyan', 'Gilbert Burnet', 'Edmund Calamy the Elder', '"Clarendon Code"', 'Ann Conway', 'John Cotton', 'Covenanters', 'Thomas Cranmer', The Declaration of Indulgence', 'Daniel Defoe', 'Arthur Dent', 'John Dod', 'John Drury', 'Church of England', 'Charles Fleetwood', 'George Fox', 'John Geree', 'Henry Hammond', 'George Herbert', 'Peter Heylin', 'Lucy Hutchinson', 'Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon', 'Independency', John Knox', 'Jean de Labadie', 'John Lambert', 'Hugh Latimer', 'Alexander Leighton', 'Edmund Ludlow', 'Matthew Newcomen', 'Nonconformity', 'John Owen', 'Samuel Parker', 'Parliament, Convention', 'Parliament, Cavalier', 'Parliament, Acts of: Conventicle (1664), Conventicle (1670), Licensing (1662), Oblivion (1660), Test (1673), Toleration (1689), Uniformity (1559), Uniformity (1662)', 'Samuel Pepys', 'Presbyterianism', 'William Prynne', 'Puritanism', 'The Restoration', 'Thomas Rugge', 'Separatists', 'Tories', 'Thomas Venner', 'Whigs', in Thomas N. Corns (ed.), The Milton Encyclopedia (Cambridge, Mass.: Yale University Press, forthcoming)
7. Academic Journal Articles
46 'Anne Bradstreet: the First Colonial Poet', Literary Half-Yearly, Commonwealth number, guest editor Anna Rutherford, xiii. 1 (University of Mysore, 1972), 13-28.
47 `The Love Poetry of John Donne', language & literature, i. 3 (University of Copenhagen, 1972), 7-19.
48 `Mr. Precisian to Mr. Formalist, concerning Stile', language & literature, The Metaphysical Tradition special issue, guest editor N.H. Keeble, ii. 3 (University of Copenhagen, 1974), 78-88.
49 `The Narrative Achievement of Sir Orfeo', English Studies, lvi. 3 (1975), 193-206.
50 [with Xavier Pons] `A Colonist with Words: an interview with Randolph Stow', Commonwealth: Essays and Studies ii (Publications de la Societe d'Etudes des Pays du Commonwealth, 1976), 70-80.
51 `J.R.R. Tolkien: Un Docte Conteur', Girandole, 4 (Paris, 1979), 9-20.
52 `The Pilgrim's Progress: A Puritan Fiction', The Baptist Quarterly, xxviii. 7 (1980), 321-36.
53 `C.S. Lewis, Richard Baxter and "Mere Christianity"', Christianity and Literature, xxx. 3 (1981), 27-44.
54 `The Behaviour of Sporus the Toad', Notes and Queries, ns xxx. 6 (1983), 508-9.
55 `Richard Baxter's Preaching Ministry: its History and Texts', Journal of Ecclesiastical History, xxxv. 4 (1984), 539-59.
56 `The Way and the Ways of Puritan Story: Biblical Patterns in Bunyan and his Contemporaries', English, xxxiii. 147 (1984), 209-32.
57 `Some Erroneous, Doubtful and Misleading Baxterian Ascriptions in Wing and Halkett and Laing', Notes and Queries, ns xxxii. 2 (1985), 187-91.
[=19] `The Autobiographer as Apologist: Reliquaie Baxterianae (1696)', Prose Studies, ix. 2 (1986), 105-19.
[=22] `"Here is her glory, even to be under him": The Feminine in the Thought and Work of John Bunyan', The Baptist Quarterly, xxxii. 8 (1988), 380-92.
[=25] 'The Politic and the Polite in Quaker Prose: the case of William Penn', Prose Studies, special issue on 'The Emergence of Quaker Prose', ed. Thomas N. Corns and David Loewenstein, xvii. 3 (1994), 112-25.
[=28] '"Till one greater man/ Restore us ...": Restoration Images in Milton and Bunyan', Bunyan Studies, 6 (1995/96), 6-33.
58 '"When civil fury first grew high,/ And men fell out they knew not why ...": Hudibras and the Making of History', Literature and History, 3 rd ser., vii. 2 (1998), 70-87.
[=32] ''Wilderness Exercises: Adversity, Temptation and Trial in Paradise Regained', Milton Studies 42: Paradise Regained in Context: Genre, Politics, Religion , ed. Albert C. Labriola and David Loewenstein (2003), 86-105.
8. Introductory Guides
59 William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, York Notes on English Literature (London & Beirut: Longman York Press, 1980; regularly rptd.; rev. edn. 1998), pp.120.
60 William Shakespeare: Richard II, York Notes on English Literature (London & Beirut: Longman York Press, 1980; regularly rptd.; rev. edn. 2000), pp.120.
9. Review Articles
61 'Good and great above her sex [Bridget Hill (ed.), The First English Feminist (1986) & Ruth Perry, The Celebrated Mary Astell (1986)]', The Times Higher Education Supplement, 745 (13 February 1987), 17.
62 'The Church Turned Upside Down [Christopher Hill, A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People: John Bunyan and His Church (1988)]', The Times Higher Education Supplement, 840 (9 December 1988), 19-20.
10. Reviews
61- 138 reviews of late medieval, Renaissance and seventeenth-century texts and studies in:
Albion, Bulletin of the Society for Renaissance Studies , Bunyan Studies , Christian Arena , Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Journal of Welsh Religious History , Medium Aevum , Historical Journal , Modern Language Review , Notes and Queries , Prose Studies , Rare Books Newsletter, Review of English Studies , Scottish Journal of Religious Studies , The Times Higher Education Supplement , Translation and Literature , Yearbook of English Studies.