Academic staff profiles
Anna VaninskayaPublications
Book:
- William Morris and the Idea of Community: Romance, History and Propaganda 1880-1914. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2010.
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011
Nominated for the Sonya Rudikoff Award of the Northeast Victorian Studies Association
Articles:
- 'Korney Chukovsky in Britain.' Translation and Literature 20.3 (November 2011): 373-92.
- '"It Was a Silly System": Writers and Non-elite Education, 1870-1939'. Modern Language Review. 105.4 (October 2010): 954-77.
- ‘William Morris: The Myth of the Fall.’ Journal of William Morris Studies. 18.4 (Summer 2010): 48-57.
- With Adelene Buckland. 'Introduction: Epic's Historic Form.' Journal of Victorian Culture 14.2 (October 2009): 163-72.
- ‘Dreams of John Ball: Reading the Peasants ‘ Revolt in the Nineteenth Century.’ Nineteenth-Century Contexts. 31.1 (March 2009): 45-57.
- ‘"My Mother, Drunk or Sober": G. K. Chesterton and Patriotic Anti-Imperialism. ‘ History of European Ideas. 34.4 (December 2008): 535-47.
- ‘The Orwell Century and After: Rethinking Reception and Reputation.’ Modern Intellectual History. 5.3 (November 2008): 597-617.
- ‘The Late-Victorian Romance Revival: A Generic Excursus.’ English Literature in Transition. 51.1 (January 2008): 57-79.
- With Christopher Stray, Alice Jenkins, James A. Secord, and Leslie Howsam. ‘What the Victorians Learned: Perspectives on Nineteenth Century Schoolbooks.’ Journal of Victorian Culture. 12.2 (Autumn 2007): 262-85.
- ‘Tom Stoppard, The Coast of Utopia, and the Strange Death of the Liberal Intelligentsia.’ Modern Intellectual History. 4.2 (August 2007): 353-65.
- ‘The Bugle of Justice: The Romantic Socialism of William Morris and George Orwell.’ Contemporary Justice Review. 8.1 (March 2005): 7-23.
- ‘Janus-faced Fictions: Socialism as Utopia and Dystopia in William Morris and George Orwell.’ Utopian Studies. 14.2 (2003): 83-98.
Book Chapters:
- ‘Tolkien and Modernity.’ A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien. Ed. Stuart Lee. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwells, Forthcoming 2014.
- ‘On Foreign Soil.’ Time Travellers: Victorian Perspectives on the Past. Ed. Adelene Buckland and Sadiah Qureshi. Chicago: Chicago University Press, Forthcoming 2014.
- 'Reading.' Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature. 2nd ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Forthcoming.
- ‘The Novel, Its Critics, and the University: A New Beginning?’ The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel. Ed. Lisa A. Rodensky. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 703-28.
- '"A True Conception of History": "Making the Past Part of the Present" in Late-Victorian Historical Romances.’ The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Low Countries. Eds. Hugh Dunthorne and Michael Wintle. Leiden: Brill. 2013. 151-67.
- ‘William Morris and the Garden City.’ Ecology and the Literature of the British Left: The Red and the Green. Eds. John Rignall and H. Gustav Klaus. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2012. 125-36.
- ‘The Political Middlebrow from Chesterton to Orwell.’ The Masculine Middlebrow, 1880-1950: What Mr Miniver Read. Ed. Kate Macdonald. Palgrave Macmillan. 2011. 162-76.
- ‘Learning to Read Trash: Late-Victorian Schools and the Penny Dreadful.’ The History of Reading, Vol. 2: Evidence from the British Isles, c. 1750-1950. Eds. Katie Halsey and W. R. Owens. Palgrave Macmillan. 2011. 67-83.
- ‘William Morris ‘s Germania: The Roots of Socialism.’ William Morris in the Twenty-First Century. Eds. Rosie Miles and Phillippa Bennett. Bern: Peter Lang, 2010. 169-92.
- ‘Корней Чуковский в Британии: три визита – три эпохи.’ Trans. Елена Дод. Русское Присутствие в Британии. Ed. Оксана Моргунова. Москва: Современная Экономика и Право, 2009. 243-56.
- ‘Tolkien: A Man of His Time’ Tolkien and Modernity. Eds. Thomas Honegger and Frank Weinreich. Switzerland: Walking Tree Publishers, 2006. 1-30.
- ‘Literature and Propaganda: The Socialist Utopia of Robert Blatchford.’ Utopia Matters: Theory, Politics, Literature and the Arts. Eds. Fátima Vieira and Marinela Freitas. Porto: Editora da Universidade do Porto, 2005. 169-82.
- ‘Theory or Myth ‘ Labour and the Working Class in William Morris and George Orwell.’ Culture and the State: Alternative Interventions. Vol. 4. Eds. James Gifford and Gabrielle Zezulka-Mailloux. Edmonton: CRC Humanities Studio, 2003. 98-117.
Reference:
- ‘Aestheticism’, ‘Arts and Crafts’, ‘Fabianism’, ‘Fin de Siècle’, ‘The Georgians’, ‘Science Fiction’. In Modernism: A Dictionary. Eds. Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Ogla Taxidou. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, Forthcoming 2014.
- ‘William Morris.’ In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Victorian Literature. Ed. Juliet John. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Reviews:
- Review of Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and Late Victorian Print Culture. Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies. Forthcoming Spring 2014.
- ‘Socialists and Social Reformers in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain.’ Review of Mark Bevir, The Making of British Socialism and Stuart Eagles, After Ruskin: The Social and Political Legacies of a Victorian Prophet, 1870-1920. The Historical Journal. 56.2 (2013). 1-9.
- Review of Caroline Sumpter, The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale. Journal of Victorian Culture. 16.1 (April 2011). 151-5.
- Review of James Alexander, Shaw’s Controversial Socialism. Modern Drama. 53.4 (Winter 2010). 585-7.
- ‘Gilbert Murray.’ The Classical Review. 58.2 (2008): 604-6.
This article was published on Nov 26, 2012