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Literature, Romanticism, Poetry

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Head of the School of Humanities

Biography:

Michael is a specialist in Romanticism, especially poetry and drama of later Romantics. His published critical work includes authors such as: Thomas Lovell Beddoes, John Clare, George Darley, Thomas Hood, John Keats, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Walter Savage Landor, Mary Shelley, and Percy Shelley. He has also published on Romantic drama, ‘Romantic generations’, Romantic fragment poems, and the periodical press in the 1820s, as well as the contemporary author Alan Moore. Michael recently edited the first ever collection of essays on Romanticism and disability, including both the representation of disability in Romantic texts, and also the lived experience of Romantic-period authors.

Qualifications:

MA (Cantab) English PhD (Bristol) Senior Fellow of the HEA

My Latest As Author

Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2019) 'Alexander's Expedition: Genre and Conquest in Thomas Beddoes’s Revolutionary Epic'. Essays in Romanticism, 26 (2). ISSN Print: 2049-6699 Online: 2049-6702
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2019) "Its Own Concentred Recompense": the Impact of Critical Disability Studies on Romanticism. Humanities, 8 (2). Article no. 103. ISSN 2076-0787
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2018) ‘Romantic Generations’. In: The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism. Oxford Handbooks . Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 157-172. ISBN 9780199660896
McInnes, A., Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 and Van-Hagen, S. (2018) Introduction: Edgy Romanticism. Romanticism, 24 (2). pp. 113-117. ISSN 1354-991X ESSN: 1750-0192
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2018) 'Loitering on the Threshold: Thomas Hood's Comical Communities'. La Questione Romantica, nuova serie, 10 (1-2). pp. 135-146. ISSN 1125-0364
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2016) Disabling Romanticism: Body, Mind, and Text. Literary Disability Studies . Palgrave Macmillan, London. ISBN Hardback: 978-1-137-46063-9 eBook: 978-1-137-46064-6
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2016) The Jew on Stage and on the Page: Intertextual Exotic. In: Staging the Other in Nineteenth-Century British Drama. Writing and Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century, 5 . Peter Lang AG, Bern, Switzerland, pp. 41-60. ISBN Hardback: 9783034319287 eBook: 9783035396164
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2013) 'The Sleep of Reason': Swamp Thing and the Intertextual Reader. In: Alan Moore and the Gothic Tradition. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 121-139. ISBN Hardback: 978-0-7190-8599-4
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2012) Centaur Poetics: Interrupted Forms in Thomas Hood's Lost Classic. In: A Firm Perswasion: Essays in British Romanticism. Sairyusha, Tokyo, pp. 213-236. ISBN 978-4-7791-1775-6
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2012) Landor, Walter Savage, Imaginary Conversations. In: The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 772-776. ISBN Hardback: 978-1-119-96926-6
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2012) Elizabethan Style in Drama. In: The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 415-421. ISBN Hardback: 978-1-4051-8810-4
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2011) Book Review: Thomas Lovell Beddoes THE IVORY GATE Later poems and fragments Edited by Alan Halsey 108pp. ReScript Books. Paperback, £9. 978 1 874400 50 9. The Times Literary Supplement Limited.
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2011) Thomas Hood and the Art of the Leg-Pull. La Questione Romantica, 3 (1). pp. 117-129. ISSN Print: 1125-0364 Online: 2037-691X
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2010) Third-generation Romantic Poetry: Beddoes, Clare, Darley, Hemans, Landon. In: The Cambridge History of English Poetry. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 542-560. ISBN Online: 9781139094924 Hardback: 9780521883061
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2010) Staging Acts of Union in George Darley's Sylvia; or, The May Queen. In: Emancipation, liberation and freedom. Romantic Drama and Theatre in Britain (1760-1830). L'eredità di Babele (7). Monte Università Parma, Parma, Italy, pp. 147-170. ISBN Hardback: 978-88-7847-319-5
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2009) Reading as Flight: Fragment Poems from Shelley's Notebooks. In: The Unfamiliar Shelley. The Nineteenth Century . Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, pp. 21-40. ISBN 9780754663904
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2008) Hedgehog Theory: How to Read a Romantic Fragment Poem. Literary Compass, 5 (1). pp. 73-89. ISSN Online: 1741-4113
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2008) "Bloody John Lacy" : The London Magazine and the Doldrums of English Drama. In: The British Periodical Text, 1797-1835. Humanities-Ebooks LLP, Tirril, Penrith, pp. 121-142. ISBN 978-1-84760-081-3
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2007) The Jest-Book, the Body and the State. In: The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Lovell Beddoes. The Nineteenth Century Series . Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, pp. 67-80. ISBN Paperback: 9781138376151 Hardback: 9780754660095 eBook: 9781315613697
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2007) The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Lovell Beddoes. The Nineteenth Century Series . Ashgate, Aldershot. ISBN 978-0-7546-6009-5
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2004) George Darley. The Literary Encyclopedia. ISSN 1747-678X
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2004) Walter Savage Landor. The Literary Encyclopedia. ISSN Online: 1747-678X
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2004) Review of the Performance of Death’s Jest-Book (NASSR, August 2003, Fordham University). Taylor and Francis (Routledge).
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2003) Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Death's Jest-Book: The 1829 Text. Routledge by arrangement with Carcanet Press Ltd, New York. ISBN 0-415-96933-6
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2002) Imagining Egypt: Walter Savage Landor's Gebir. La Questione Romantica, 12/13. pp. 49-64. ISSN Print: 1125-0364 Online: 2037-691X
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2001) Resurrection Songs: The Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes. The Nineteenth Century Series . Ashgate, Aldershot. ISBN 9780754601036
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2001) Burying and Praising the Minor Romantic: The Case of George Darley. POETICA: An International Journal of Linguistic-Literary Studies, 54. pp. 93-106. ISSN 0287-1629
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2000) Book Review - Mark Jones, The ‘Lucy Poems’: A Case Study in Literary Knowledge (Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1995), pp. xiv+337. £35.75 hardback. 0 8020 0434 2. Edinburgh University Press.
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2000) Reading and Surface in Keats's "The Eve of St Mark". Japan Women's University studies in English and American literature, 35. pp. 97-115. ISSN 0288-3015
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2000) Biography: Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, 1803-1849. Literature Online.
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (2000) English in the Electronic Age: A World Language? In: English II (JWU correspondence course book). Japan Women's University.
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (1999) Thomas Lovell Beddoes: Selected Poetry. Carcanet, Manchester. ISBN 1-85754-408-0, 978 1 857544 08 4
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (1999) Beddoes and the Poetics of Fragmentation. Agenda, 37 (2-3). pp. 264-280. ISSN 0002-0796
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (1999) Resurrecting Thomas Lovell Beddoes. In: The Influence and Anxiety of the British Romantics: Spectres of Romanticism. Edwin Mellen Press, Lampeter, Wales, pp. 139-157. ISBN 978-0-7734-7999-9
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (1996) Mary Shelley's The Last Man (The End of the World as We Know It). In: Impossibility Fiction: Alternativity - Extrapolation - Speculation. Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature, 17 . Rodopi B.V. (Brill), Amsterdam, pp. 163-176. ISBN Paperback: 9789042000254
Bradshaw, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-0760 (1995) Book Review: of Hugh Haughton, Adam Phillips, Geoffrey Summerfield (eds.), John Clare in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1994), pp. 313. £37.50 hardback. 0 521 445477. Edinburgh University Press.

My Most Viewed As Author

#	Item title
1.	Disabling Romanticism: Body, Mind, and Text	287
2.	Book Review - Mark Jones, The ‘Lucy Poems’: A Case Study in Literary Knowledge (Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1995), pp. xiv+337. £35.75 hardback. 0 8020 0434 2.	265
3.	Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Death's Jest-Book: The 1829 Text	241
4.	'Alexander's Expedition: Genre and Conquest in Thomas Beddoes’s Revolutionary Epic'	237	198
5.	Centaur Poetics: Interrupted Forms in Thomas Hood's Lost Classic	229
6.	Third-generation Romantic Poetry: Beddoes, Clare, Darley, Hemans, Landon	228
7.	Resurrection Songs: The Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes	227
8.	The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Lovell Beddoes	220
9.	"Its Own Concentred Recompense": the Impact of Critical Disability Studies on Romanticism	213	92
10.	The Jew on Stage and on the Page: Intertextual Exotic	210
11.	'Loitering on the Threshold: Thomas Hood's Comical Communities'	202	1
12.	Introduction: Edgy Romanticism	201	155
13.	Beddoes and the Poetics of Fragmentation	200
14.	English in the Electronic Age: A World Language?	197
15.	Imagining Egypt: Walter Savage Landor's Gebir	197
16.	Reading and Surface in Keats's "The Eve of St Mark"	194
17.	Resurrecting Thomas Lovell Beddoes	194
18.	Reading as Flight: Fragment Poems from Shelley's Notebooks	193
19.	Review of the Performance of Death’s Jest-Book (NASSR, August 2003, Fordham University)	189
20.	‘Romantic Generations’	189
21.	Book Review: of Hugh Haughton, Adam Phillips, Geoffrey Summerfield (eds.), John Clare in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1994), pp. 313. £37.50 hardback. 0 521 445477	187
22.	Burying and Praising the Minor Romantic: The Case of George Darley	187
23.	Thomas Hood and the Art of the Leg-Pull	186
24.	Elizabethan Style in Drama	186
25.	Staging Acts of Union in George Darley's Sylvia; or, The May Queen	181
26.	Hedgehog Theory: How to Read a Romantic Fragment Poem	179
27.	Mary Shelley's The Last Man (The End of the World as We Know It)	178
28.	The Jest-Book, the Body and the State	177
29.	Thomas Lovell Beddoes: Selected Poetry	177
30.	George Darley	176
31.	"Bloody John Lacy" : The London Magazine and the Doldrums of English Drama	173
32.	Landor, Walter Savage, Imaginary Conversations	168
33.	Biography: Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, 1803-1849	163
34.	Book Review: Thomas Lovell Beddoes THE IVORY GATE Later poems and fragments Edited by Alan Halsey 108pp. ReScript Books. Paperback, £9. 978 1 874400 50 9	162
35.	'The Sleep of Reason': Swamp Thing and the Intertextual Reader	141
36.	Walter Savage Landor	134

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