Teaching

English Literature 1740 - present

Critical Theory

Critical Reading

Research interests

Twentieth- and twenty-first century poetry 

Jane Austen

Language and form in prose narrative

Publications

Tony Harrison: Loiner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

H. v. & O: The Poetry of Tony Harrison. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998.

The Poetry of Ted Hughes. Cambridge: Icon Books, 2000.

George Bernard Shaw: Plays. New York: W.W. Norton, 2002.

(Critical edition.)

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

The Unbearable Saki: The Work of H.H. Munro. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Possessions and Dispossessions: The Social and Symbolic Value of Objects in the fiction of Jane Austen (forthcoming)

Articles on a number of authors and periods