Dr Matthew Creasy

Senior Lecturer in English Literature (English Literature)

telephone: 01413304133
email: Matthew.Creasy@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: He/him/his

Rm 503, English Literature, No 3 The Square

Research interests

His critical edition of Arthur Symons' The Symbolist Movement in Literature was published by Fyfield-Carcanet in 2014 and he is PI for an AHRC-funded network called ‘Decadence and Translation’.

He is currently preparing a critical edition of George Moore’s novel, Confessions of a Young Man for the Jewelled Tortoise, an imprint of the MHRA.

Modernism
James Joyce
Decadence
The Fin de Siècle
Children’s Literature
Periodical Culture

Biography

Matthew Creasy joined the School of Critical Studies in 2007, having taught at the Universities of Sheffield, Durham and St Andrews. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and Lincoln College and Christ Church, Oxford. During 2000 he was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University. He completed his doctoral research on James Joyce. Since then, he has published essays and articles on James Joyce, Irish literature, William Empson, T.S. Eliot, Arthur Symons, Decadence and Victorian periodical culture. His recent research concerns the influence of French literature upon the British Fin de siècle and early Modernism.

Matthew is secretary to the Scottish Network of Modernist Studies and Vice-Chair of the British Association of Decadence Studies.

Matthew is a member of the University of Glasgow Textual Editing Lab

Publications

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Number of items: 76.

2024

Creasy, M. (2024) Fifty ways to list your lovers: ‘Ithaca’ and the text-in-progress. In: Nugent, G. and Slote, S. (eds.) Ulysses Forty Years: A Critical Retrospective of Hans Walter Gabler's Critical and Synoptic Edition of Ulysses. Clemson University Press: Clemson, pp. 81-101. ISBN 9781638041306 (In Press)

Creasy, M. (2024) Moore, George, Confessions of a Young Man. Literary Encyclopedia, 1.2(1.07),

Creasy, M. (2024) Hanging out with ‘Archival Al’: decadent community in neo-Victorian comics. Volupté, (Accepted for Publication)

Creasy, M. (2024) Yeats and the Savoy: Irish poetry and French decadence. In: Armstrong, C. I., Patterson, A. and Walker, T. (eds.) Edinburgh Companion to W.B. Yeats and the Arts. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474499668 (In Press)

Creasy, M. (2024) Stéphane Mallarmé. Yellow Nineties 2.0,

Moore, G. and Creasy, M. (2024) Confessions of a Young Man by George Moore: A Critical Edition. Series: Critical Texts. Modern Humanities Research Association: Oxford. ISBN 9781781887776 (In Press)

2023

Creasy, M. and Evangelista, S.-M. (Eds.) (2023) Decadence and Translation. Modern Philology. 121(1) [Edited Journal]

Creasy, M. (2023) Translation in decadence: George Moore’s Confessions of a Young Man. Modern Philology, 121(1), pp. 12-31.

Creasy, M. (2023) Decadence and Translation: Special Issue - Front Cover. Portraits of C. P. Cavafy, Lafcadio Hearn, José Juan Tablada, Henríquez Ureña, George Moore, Mathilde Serao, and Grazia Deledda. [Artefact]

Creasy, M. (2023) Oxford Handbook of Decadence, ed. by Jane Desmarais and David Weir. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 59(3), pp. 464-465. (doi: 10.1093/fmls/cqad034)[Book Review]

2022

Creasy, M. (2022) Scylla and Charybdis. In: Flynn, C. (ed.) The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 276-319. ISBN 9781316515945 (doi: 10.1017/9781009027007.012)

Creasy, M. (2022) Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891). Yellow Nineties 2.0,

Creasy, M. (2022) Introduction: Scottish Cosmopolitanism at the Fin de Siècle. Studies in Scottish Literature, 48(1), pp. 3-15. (doi: 10.51221/sc.ssl.2022.48.1.2)

Creasy, M. (2022) Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896). Yellow Nineties 2.0,

Creasy, M. (2022) Some Versions of Pastoral and Related Writings: William Empson. Some Versions of Pastoral and Related Writings. Edited by Seamus Perry. Oxford UP, 2020. xxxii + 453 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-965966-1. £80. Style, 56(1-2), pp. 119-123. (doi: 10.5325/style.56.1-2.0119)[Book Review]

2021

Creasy, M. (2021) What Baudelaire means to me. Volupté, 4(1), pp. 86-91. (doi: 10.25602/GOLD.v.v4i1.1510.g1623)

Creasy, M. (2021) Modernism and Non-Translation, edited by Jason Harding and John Nash. Translation and Literature, 30(1), pp. 104-108. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2021.0451)[Book Review]

Creasy, M. (2021) Edith Nesbit: Five Children and It. In: Fimi, D. (ed.) The Literary Encyclopaedia. The Literary Dictionary Company.

Creasy, M. (2021) Edith Nesbit: The Railway Children. In: Fimi, D. (ed.) The Literary Encyclopedia. The Literary Dictionary Company.

2020

Creasy, M. and Evangelista, S. (2020) The view from Strasbourg: translational readings of decadence by the Guest Editors. Volupté, 3(2), ii-x. (doi: 10.25602/GOLD.v.v3i2.1445.g1558)

Creasy, M. (2020) Edith Nesbit: The Story of the Treasure Seekers. Literary Encyclopedia, 1.2.(1.0.8),

Creasy, M. (2020) 'Rather a delicate subject’: Verlaine, France and British decadence. In: Murray, A. (ed.) Decadence: a Literary History. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, pp. 65-86. ISBN 9781108426299 (doi: 10.1017/9781108640527.004)

Creasy, M. (2020) Review: Stéphane Guégan and André Guyaux, eds, Joris-Karl Huysmans: De Degas à Grünewald (Paris: Gallimard, 2019). Volupté, 3(1), pp. 140-144. (doi: 10.25602/GOLD.v.v3i1.1411.g1525)[Book Review]

Creasy, M. (2020) La décadence à l'ère numérique: Paul Verlaine et les périodiques victoriens. Revue d’histoire littéraire de la France, 2020(1), pp. 59-75. (doi: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-10071-3.p.0059)

Creasy, M. (2020) Contingency, irony ... textuality: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and textual criticism. Modernist Cultures, 15(1), pp. 48-68. (doi: 10.3366/mod.2020.0279)

Creasy, M. (2020) T.S. Eliot. Year's Work in English Studies, 99(1), pp. 974-982. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/maaa014)

2019

Creasy, M. (2019) 'A Sort of Breviary': Arthur Symons, J.K. Huysmans and British decadence. Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens, 2019(90), (doi: 10.4000/cve.6440)

Creasy, M. (2019) "The neglected, the unutterable Verlaine": Arthur Symons, the Saturday review and French literature in the 1890s. Victorian Periodicals Review, 52(1), pp. 103-123. (doi: 10.1353/vpr.2019.0004)

Creasy, M. (2019) T.S. Eliot. Year's Work in English Studies, 98(1), pp. 979-989. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/maz011)

Creasy, M. (2019) William Empson, The Face of the Buddha. Style, 53(2), pp. 269-272. (doi: 10.1353/sty.2019.0019)[Book Review]

Creasy, M. (2019) Women Writing Decadence: Eleven Illustrations. [Artefact]

2018

Creasy, M. (2018) T.S. Eliot. Year's Work in English Studies, 97(1), pp. 986-995. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/may015)

2017

Creasy, M. (2017) Joyce's Dante: Exile, Memory, and Community, by James Robinson. Translation and Literature, 26(2), pp. 248-251. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2017.0295)[Book Review]

Creasy, M. (2017) The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition: English Lion, 1930–1933 ed. by Jason Harding, Ronald Schuchard, and: Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 5—1930–1931 ed. by John Haffenden. Style, 51(4), pp. 559-563. (doi: 10.1353/sty.2017.0042)[Book Review]

Creasy, M. (2017) Joyce's Creative Process and the Construction of Character in Ulysses by Luca Crispi (review). Style, 51(2), pp. 263-270. (doi: 10.1353/sty.2017.0020)[Book Review]

Creasy, M. (2017) The sinister guest: Arthur Symons, villiers de l'Isle-Adam and Post-Victorian decadence. In: Evangelista, S. and Bizzoto, E. (eds.) Arthur Symons: Poet, Critic, Vagabond. Series: Studies in comparative literature (44). Legenda. ISBN 9781781884973

Creasy, M. (2017) T.S. Eliot. Year's Work in English Studies, 96, pp. 1001-1008. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/max016)

2016

Creasy, M. (2016) A Handful of Eliot: Review of The Poems of T.S. Eliot, 2 volumes, ed. by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. PN Review, 43(2), pp. 61-62. [Book Review]

Creasy, M. (2016) Mixed Up Confucian - A review of A.D. Moody, Ezra Pound: Portrait of the Man and his Work. Volume III: The Tragic Years, Oxford University Press 2015 654 + xxii pp., £30. PN Review, 42(5), pp. 80-81. [Book Review]

Creasy, M. (2016) Villiers de l'Isle-Adam: le theatre et ses imaginaires. French Studies, 70(2), (doi: 10.1093/fs/knw061)[Book Review]

Creasy, M. (2016) The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition. Variants: The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, 12-13, pp. 260-263. [Book Review]

Creasy, M. (2016) T.S. Eliot. Year's Work in English Studies, 95, pp. 1034-1041. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/maw012)

2015

Creasy, M. (2015) How to write a children’s classic: the Gruffalo formula. Conversation, 7 Aug.

Creasy, M. (2015) Adultery. In: Felluga, D.F., Gilbert, P.K. and Hughes, L.K. (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature. Series: The Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of literature. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.: Chichester. ISBN 9781118405383

Creasy, M. (2015) France. In: Felluga, D.F., Gilbert, P.K. and Hughes, L.K. (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature. Series: The Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of literature. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.: Chichester. ISBN 9781118405383

2014

Creasy, M. (2014) Afflicted or not, James Joyce probed the politics of syphilis. Conversation, 10 Jun.

Symons, A. (2014) The Symbolist Movement in Literature. [Scholarly Editions]

2013

Creasy, M. and Thomson, A. (2013) Introduction: Ex-Centric Modernisms. Modernist Cultures, 7(1), pp. 157-162. (doi: 10.3366/mod.2013.0058)

Creasy, M. and Randall, B. (2013) Alternative 1910s [Special Issue]. Literature and History, 22(1),

2012

Creasy, M. (2012) Review article: Michael Wood, Yeats and Violence, Ann Saddlemeyer (ed.), W. B. Yeats and George Yeats: The Letters, and Roy Foster, Words Alone: Yeats and his Inheritances. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 48(3), pp. 351-355. [Book Review]

Creasy, M. (2012) Book Review: Jennifer Higgins, English Responses to French Poetry 1880-1940. Translation and Literature, 21(2), pp. 255-261. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2012.0075)[Book Review]

Jaffe, A., Radford, A. , Slote, S., Sandberg, E., Bentley, N., D'Monte, R., Saunders, G., Creasy, M. and Johnston, M. (2012) Modern literature. Year's Work in English Studies, 91(1), pp. 814-904. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/mas008)

2011

Creasy, M. (Ed.) (2011) Errears and Erroriboose: Joyce and Error. Series: European Joyce Studies. Rodopi Press: Amsterdam. ISBN 9789042033276

Creasy, M. (2011) The cracking curriculum: Ulysses, error and education. In: Creasy, M. (ed.) Errears and Erroriboose: Joyce and Error. Rodopi Press.

Creasy, M. (2011) Error and education in Ulysses. In: Creasy, M. (ed.) Errears and Erroriboose: Joyce and Erroriboose. Series: European Joyce Studies (20). Rodopi Press: Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 57-72. ISBN 9789042033276

Creasy, M. (2011) Introduction. In: Creasy, M. (ed.) Errears and Erroriboose: Joyce and Error. Rodopi Press.

Creasy, M. (2011) Inverted volumes and fantastic libraries: Ulysses and Bouvard et Pécuchet. In: Fordham, F. and Sakr, R. (eds.) James Joyce and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel. Series: European Joyce studies, 19. Rodopi Press: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 112-127. ISBN 9789042032897

Radford, A. , Slote, S., Harrison, A., Sandberg, E., Bentley, N., D'monte, R., Saunders, G., Creasy, M. and Johnston, M. (2011) Modern literature. Year's Work in English Studies, 90(1), pp. 780-875. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/mar017)

2010

Creasy, M. (2010) Bloomsbury group. In: Suarez, M.F. and Woudhuysen, H.R. (eds.) Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198606536

Creasy, M. (2010) Faber & Faber. In: Suarez, M.F. and Woudhuysen, H.R. (eds.) Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198606536

Creasy, M. (2010) Harriet Shaw Weaver. In: Suarez, M.F. and Woudhuysen, H.R. (eds.) Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198606536

Creasy, M. (2010) Hogarth. In: Suarez, M.F. and Woudhuysen, H.R. (eds.) Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198606536

Creasy, M. (2010) James Joyce. In: Suarez, M.F. and Woudhuysen, H.R. (eds.) Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198606536

Creasy, M. (2010) T.S. Eliot. In: Suarez, M.F. and Woudhuysen, H.R. (eds.) Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198606536

Creasy, M. (2010) Hamlet among the Celts: Shakespeare and Irish Ireland. In: Clare, J. and O'Neill, S. (eds.) Shakespeare and the Irish Writer. University College Dublin Press: Dublin, pp. 79-94. ISBN 9781906359393

Jaffe, A. et al. (2010) Modern literature. Year's Work in English Studies, 89(1), pp. 790-901. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/maq015)

2009

Creasy, M. (2009) Book Review: Peter Mahon, Imagining Joyce and Derrida, Philip Kitcher, Joyce's Kaleidoscope and Len Platt, Joyce, Race and Finnegans Wake. Modernism/Modernity, 16(3), pp. 635-639. (doi: 10.1353/mod.0.0113)[Book Review]

Bentley, N., Creasy, M. , Grover, M., D'Monte, R., Harrison, A., Jaffe, A., Quinn, J., Radford, A. , Randall, B. and Saunders, G. (2009) Modern literature. Year's Work in English Studies, 88(1), pp. 867-989. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/map006)

2008

Creasy, M. (2008) Seven types of ambiguity and James Joyce. Notes and Queries, 55(1), pp. 68-72. (doi: 10.1093/notesj/gjm245)

Creasy, M. (2008) 'To vary the timehonoured adage': Ulysses and the proverb. English, 57(217), pp. 65-81. (doi: 10.1093/english/efn008)

Jaffe, A. et al. (2008) Modern literature. Year's Work in English Studies, 87(1), pp. 863-965. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/man005)

2007

Bentley, N. et al. (2007) Modern literature. Year's Work in English Studies, 86(1), pp. 780-886. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/mam014)

Creasy, M. (2007) Empson's tact. In: Bevis, M. (ed.) Some Versions of Empson. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 182-200. ISBN 9780199286362

Creasy, M. (2007) Manuscripts and misquotations: Ulysses and genetic criticism. Joyce Studies Annual, 2007,

Creasy, M. (2007) Pre-1950 poetry. Year's Work in English Studies, 86(1), pp. 780-886. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/mam014)

2005

Creasy, M. (2005) Shakespeare burlesque in Ulysses. Essays in Criticism, 55(2), pp. 136-158. (doi: 10.1093/escrit/cgi010)

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