Andrew Mousley

Department of English and Creative Writing

Research and Publications

Publications

Books

• Editor, with Introduction (pp. 1-19, 23-7, 93-7, 161-5) of Towards a New Literary Humanism (London: Palgrave, 2011), 244pp.
• Re-Humanising Shakespeare: Literary Humanism, Wisdom and Modernity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007)
• Critical Humanisms: Humanist and Anti-Humanist Debates, with Martin Halliwell (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003)
• Renaissance Drama and Contemporary Literary Theory (London: Macmillan, 2000)
• Editor of New Casebooks: John Donne (London: Macmillan, 1999)

Journal Articles

• ‘The New Literary Humanism: Towards a Critical Vocabulary’, Textual Practice, 24:5 (2010), 819-39.
• ‘Limits, Limitlessness and the Politics of the (Post)human’, postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 1:1 (2010), 247-55.
• ‘Human Remains in Hamlet, King Lear and Othello’, Filolog, 1:1 (2010), 33-9.
• ‘Early Modern Autobiography, History and Human Testimony’, Textual Practice, 23:2 (2009), 267-87.
• Guest editor, with introduction, of a special issue on ‘Shakespeare and the Meaning of Life’, Shakespeare, 5:2 (2009), 135-44.
• ‘Early Modern Autobiography, History and Human Testimony’, Textual Practice, 23:2 (2009), 267-87.
• ‘Renaissance Literary Studies after Theory: Aesthetics, History and the Human’, Literature Compass, October, 2004, http://www.literature-compass.com
• ‘Humanising Contemporary Theory, Re-humanising Literature’, Working Papers on the Web: The Value of Literature, 2 (2000), http://www.shu.ac.uk/wpw
• ‘Post-Theory, Literature, Marxism’, Keywords, 3 (2000)
• ‘Self, State and Seventeenth Century News’, The Seventeenth Century, 6 (1991)
• ‘Renaissance Selves and Life Writing: The Autobiography of Thomas Whythorne’, Forum for Modern Language Studies, 26 (1990)
  

Chapters in Book

• ‘Scepticism, Speaking in the Plural and Sensuousness: Posthumanisms and Humanisms in King Lear’, ed. Ivan Callus and Stefan Herbrechter (London: Palgrave, forthcoming)
• ‘Spiritual Humanisms’, in Spiritual Identities: Literature and the Post-Secular Imagination, ed. Jo Carruthers and Andrew Tate (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009)
• ‘English after Anti-Humanism’, in The Condition of the Subject, ed. Philip Martin (London: Palgrave, 2005)
• ‘Transubstantiating Love: John Donne and Cultural Criticism’, in The Poetics of Transubstantiation: from Theology to Metaphor, ed. Douglas Burnham and Enrico Giaccerini (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005)
• ‘Identity as Appropriation and Language as Cultural Capital in Othello and Renaissance Commonplace Books’, in Culture and Identity, ed. Suzanne Stern-Gillet, Tadeusz Slawek, Tadeusz Rachwat and Roger Whitehouse (Katowice: University of Silesia Press, 1996)
• ‘The Prince and Textual Politics’. in Texts in Culture: Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince, ed. Martin Coyle (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995)
• ‘Hamlet and the Politics of Individualism’, in New Essays on Hamlet, ed. Mark Burnett and John Manning (New York: AMS Press, 1994)
  

Refereed Encyclopaedia Entries

• ‘Thomas Whythorne’, in Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature, ed. Garrett A. Sullivan Jr and Alan Stewart, 3 vols (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming 2011), 1000 words.
• `Renaissance Literary Theory’, The Literary Encyclopedia, http://www.litencyc.com, 3290 words.
• ‘The Prince’, The Literary Encyclopedia, 2001, http://www.litencyc.com
• ‘Machiavelli’, The Literary Encyclopedia, 2001, http://www.litencyc.com
• ‘Humanism’, The Literary Encyclopedia, 2001, http://www.litencyc.com
• ‘Metaphysical Poetry’, The Literary Encyclopedia, 2001, http://www.litencyc.com

Series Editorship

(with Martin Halliwell) of Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature (Edinburgh University Press). The following titles have so far been published in this series: 

• Andrew Smith, Gothic Literature (2007)
• Faye Hammill, Canadian Literature (2007)
• Annette Saddik, Contemporary American Drama (2007)
• Jo Gill, Women’s Poetry (2007)
• Gabriel Egan, Shakespeare (2007)
• Bella Adams, Asian American Literature (2007)
• Matthew Grenby, Children’s Literature (2008)
• Siobhan Keenan, Renaissance Literature (2008)
• Nick Bentley, Contemporary British Fiction (2008)
• Gerard Carruthers, Scottish Literature (2009)
• David Brauner, Contemporary American Fiction (2010)
• David Lane, Contemporary British Drama (2010)
• David Amigoni, Victorian Literature (2011)
• Nerys Willams, Contemporary Poetry (2011)
• Pamela King, Medieval Literature (2011)

The following titles have been commissioned:

• Rachel Potter, Modernist Literature
• Catherine Morley, Modern American Literature
• Dave Gunning, Postcolonial Literature
• Jennifer Terry, African American Literature
• Hamish Mathison, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
• Stacy Gillis, Crime Fiction

Reviews

• Peter Holbrook, Shakespeare’s Individualism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), Cahiers Elisabethains,78 (2010), 109-10.

Forthcoming

• Monograph under contract with Routledge: New Literary Humanism: Criticism, Theory, Practice (2013). 

Website

Sage Bites: Reflections on Quotations for Life at http://sagebites.squarespace.com.

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