Staff Profile:Dr Andrew Nash

Name:

Dr Andrew Nash

Job Title:

Senior Lecturer

Responsibilities:

BA Programme Director

Within the department I convene modules in:

• Nineteenth-Century Novel
• Modern Scottish Fiction
• Victorian and Edwardian Children's Fantasy 

Areas of Interest:

My primary research interests are in Scottish Literature, and Book and Publishing History. I also have interests in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, children's literature, the literary culture of the inter-war period, and the work of J.M. Barrie. I am a contributor to Volume 6 of the Cambridge History of the Book in Britain and am on the editorial team of Volume 7 of the Cambridge project.

Postgraduate Supervision:

I would welcome research students wishing to work on the history of books, publishing and authorship in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, J.M. Barrie, Victorian and Edwardian fiction and any aspect of Scottish literature.

Research groups / Centres:

Publications:

Books:

Kailyard and Scottish Literature (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007)

(ed. with Simon Eliot and Ian Willison), Literary Cultures and the Material Book (London: British Library Publications; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007)

(ed.), S.R. Crockett, The Stickit Minister (Glasgow: Kennedy & Boyd, 2007)

(ed.), Ian Maclaren, Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush (Glasgow: Kennedy & Boyd, 2007)

(ed.), The Culture of Collected Editions (Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave, 2003)

(ed.), Farewell, Miss Julie Logan: A J.M. Barrie Omnibus (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2000)

Selected articles and chapters:

'The Changing Face of the Publishing House 1880-1980'; 'Literary Publishing, 1880-1914'; 'Scottish Authors in the Literary Marketplace', in The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume IV: Professionalism and Diversity 1880-2000, ed. David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery (Edinburgh: EUP, 2007), pp. 185-202; 203-22; 388-408.

'J.M. Barrie and the Third Sex', in 'Joyous Sweit Imaginatioun': Essays on Scottish Literature in Honour of Professor R.D.S. Jack, ed. Sarah Carpenter and Sarah Dunnigan (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007), pp. 229-241.

'"At the Gates": New Commentaries on a Lost Text by D.H. Lawrence', The Review of English Studies, Vol. 56, No. 227 (November, 2005), 766-75.

'Ghostly Endings: the Evolution of J.M. Barrie's Farewell Miss Julie Logan', Studies in Scottish Literature, Vol. 33 (2004), 124-137.

'The Publication of Catherine Carswell's Novels', The Bibliotheck, new series, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2004), 7-26.

'A Publisher's Reader on the verge of Modernity: the case of Frank Swinnerton', Book History Vol. 6 (2003), 175-95.

'Frank Swinnerton on John Cowper Powys, The Powys Journal, XIII (2003), 166-78.

'Life in Gissing's New Grub Street: David Christie Murray and the Practice of Authorship, 1880-1900', Publishing History, Vol. LI (2002), 23-61.

(with James Knowlson), 'Charles Prentice and T.F. Powys: a publisher's influence', The Powys Journal, XII (2002), 35-66.

'The Serialisation and Publication of The Return of the Native: a new Thomas Hardy Letter', The Library, Seventh Series, Vol. 2, No. 1 (March, 2001), 53-9.

'Robert Buchanan and Chatto & Windus: Reputation, Authorship, and Fiction as Capital in the late Nineteenth Century', Publishing History, Vol. XLVI (1999), 5-33.

'From Realism to Romance: Gender and Narrative Technique in J.M. Barrie's The Little Minister', Scottish Literary Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1 (June, 1999), 77-92.

'"Trying to be a Man": J.M. Barrie and Sentimental Masculinity', Forum for Modern Language Studies, Vol. 35, No. 2 (April, 1999), 113-127; reprinted in Twentieth Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 164 (Michigan: Thomson, Gale, 2005), pp. 80-7.

'The Cotter's Kailyard', in Robert Burns and Cultural Authority, ed. Robert Crawford (Edinburgh: EUP, 1997), pp. 180-97.