Professor Laurence Davies
- Honorary Senior Research Fellow (School of Modern Languages & Cultures)
Publications
2013
Davies, L. (2013) Scaffold, pulpit, booth and possibly a death-bed: Scenes of confession in Hawthorne and Poe. Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, (Unpublished)
2012
Davies, L. (2012) Introduction. In: Within the Tides, Joseph Conrad. Series: Cambridge edition of the works of Joseph Conrad. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781107017580
2011
Davies, L. (2011) Guillermo del Toro's Cronos, or the Pleasures of Impurity. In: Wasson, S. and Alder, E. (eds.) Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010. Series: Liverpool science fiction texts and studies. Liverpool University Press, pp. 87-99. ISBN 9781846317071
Davies, L. (2011) Science and technology: present, past and future. In: Booth, H.J. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Rudyard Kipling. Series: Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 52-65. ISBN 9780521199728
2010
Davies, L. (2010) Conrad's "Patriotic charitable" donation: "an outpost of progress" in 'The Ladysmith Anthology'. Conradian, 35(1), pp. 92-100.
2009
Davies, L. (2009) Uncanny Conrad: home, exile, memory, and communion with the dead. Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, 11(1), pp. 105-117. (doi: 10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01286.x)
Davies, L. (2009) Conrad in the operatic mode. In: Baxter, K.I. and Hand, R.J. (eds.) Joseph Conrad and the Performing Arts. Ashgate: Farnham, UK, pp. 127-145. ISBN 9780754664901
Davies, L. (2009) "Don't you think I am a lost soul?": Conrad's early stories in the magazines. Conradiana, 41(1), pp. 7-28.
Davies, L. (2009) Fin de siècle. In: Simmons, A.H. (ed.) Joseph Conrad in Context. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 147-154. ISBN 9780521887922
Davies, L. (2009) The lesson of the cylinders: Wells, Conrad, James and Kipling. In: Ciompi, F. (ed.) One of Us: Studi Inglesi e Conradiani Offerti a Mario Curreli. Series: Percorsi. Nuova serie (20). ETS: Pisa, Italy, pp. 9-18. ISBN 9788846725233
Davies, L. (2009) Tellin them apart: Conrad, Stevenson and the social double. In: Dryden, L., Arata, S. and Massie, E. (eds.) Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad: Writers of Transition. Texas Tech University Press: Lubbock, USA. ISBN 9780896726536
Davies, L. (2009) The time of his time: Travels With a Donkey and An Inland Voyage. In: Ambrosini, R. and Dury, R. (eds.) European Stevenson. Cambridge Scholars: Newcastle, UK, pp. 73-89. ISBN 9781443814362
2007
Davies, L. and Moore, G.M. eds. (2007) Letters, 1923-1924. Series: Collected letters of Joseph Conrad, 8. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780521561976
Davies, L., Knowles, O., Moore, G.M. and Stape, J.H. (Eds.) (2007) Uncollected Letters, 1892-1923. Series: Collected letters of Joseph Conrad. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780521881890
Davies, L. (2007) Clenched fists and open hands: Conrad's unruliness. Conradian, 32(2), pp. 23-35.
2006
Davies, L. (2006) A sideways ending to it all. In: Finkelstein, D. (ed.) Print Culture and the Blackwood Tradition 1805-1930. University of Toronto Press: Toronto, pp. 236-258. ISBN 0802087116
2005
Davies, L. (2005) Conrad, Lily Voynich and the mutton chop of history. In: Curreli, M. (ed.) The Ugo Mursia Memorial Lectures: Second Series: Papers From the International Conrad Conference, University of Pisa, September 16th-18th 2004. Series: Percorsi. Nuova serie (15). ETS: Pisa, Italy, pp. 73-80. ISBN 9788846712271
2004
Davies, L. and Stape, J.H. (Eds.) (2004) Letters, 1920-1922. Series: Collected letters of Joseph Conrad. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780521561969
Davies, L. (2004) 'The thing which was not' and the thing that is also: Conrad's ironic shadowing. In: Kaplan, C., Mallios, P. and White, A. (eds.) Conrad in the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Approaches and Perspectives. Routledge: New York, pp. 223-237. ISBN 9780415971645
2002
Davies, L., Karl, F.R. and Knowles, O. (Eds.) (2002) Letters, 1917-1919. Series: Collected letters of Joseph Conrad. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780521561952
Davies, L. (2002) Seductions of the word: Conrad and Soyinka. In: De Lange, A., Fincham, G. and Krajka, W. (eds.) Conrad in Africa: New Essays on Heart of Darkness. Social Science Monographs: Boulder, pp. 195-210. ISBN 0880339934
1999
Davies, L. (1999) At play in the fields of our ford: Utopian dystopianism in Atwood, Huxley and Zamyatin. In: Slusser, G., Alkon, P., Gaillard, R. and Chatelain, D. (eds.) Transformations of Utopia: Changing Views of the Perfect Society. Series: AMS studies in cultural history (5). AMS Press: New York, NY, USA, pp. 205-214. ISBN 9780404642556
Articles
Davies, L. (2013) Scaffold, pulpit, booth and possibly a death-bed: Scenes of confession in Hawthorne and Poe. Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, (Unpublished)
Davies, L. (2010) Conrad's "Patriotic charitable" donation: "an outpost of progress" in 'The Ladysmith Anthology'. Conradian, 35(1), pp. 92-100.
Davies, L. (2009) Uncanny Conrad: home, exile, memory, and communion with the dead. Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, 11(1), pp. 105-117. (doi: 10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01286.x)
Davies, L. (2009) "Don't you think I am a lost soul?": Conrad's early stories in the magazines. Conradiana, 41(1), pp. 7-28.
Davies, L. (2007) Clenched fists and open hands: Conrad's unruliness. Conradian, 32(2), pp. 23-35.
Books
Davies, L. and Moore, G.M. eds. (2007) Letters, 1923-1924. Series: Collected letters of Joseph Conrad, 8. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780521561976
Book Sections
Davies, L. (2012) Introduction. In: Within the Tides, Joseph Conrad. Series: Cambridge edition of the works of Joseph Conrad. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781107017580
Davies, L. (2011) Guillermo del Toro's Cronos, or the Pleasures of Impurity. In: Wasson, S. and Alder, E. (eds.) Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010. Series: Liverpool science fiction texts and studies. Liverpool University Press, pp. 87-99. ISBN 9781846317071
Davies, L. (2011) Science and technology: present, past and future. In: Booth, H.J. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Rudyard Kipling. Series: Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 52-65. ISBN 9780521199728
Davies, L. (2009) Conrad in the operatic mode. In: Baxter, K.I. and Hand, R.J. (eds.) Joseph Conrad and the Performing Arts. Ashgate: Farnham, UK, pp. 127-145. ISBN 9780754664901
Davies, L. (2009) Fin de siècle. In: Simmons, A.H. (ed.) Joseph Conrad in Context. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 147-154. ISBN 9780521887922
Davies, L. (2009) The lesson of the cylinders: Wells, Conrad, James and Kipling. In: Ciompi, F. (ed.) One of Us: Studi Inglesi e Conradiani Offerti a Mario Curreli. Series: Percorsi. Nuova serie (20). ETS: Pisa, Italy, pp. 9-18. ISBN 9788846725233
Davies, L. (2009) Tellin them apart: Conrad, Stevenson and the social double. In: Dryden, L., Arata, S. and Massie, E. (eds.) Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad: Writers of Transition. Texas Tech University Press: Lubbock, USA. ISBN 9780896726536
Davies, L. (2009) The time of his time: Travels With a Donkey and An Inland Voyage. In: Ambrosini, R. and Dury, R. (eds.) European Stevenson. Cambridge Scholars: Newcastle, UK, pp. 73-89. ISBN 9781443814362
Davies, L. (2006) A sideways ending to it all. In: Finkelstein, D. (ed.) Print Culture and the Blackwood Tradition 1805-1930. University of Toronto Press: Toronto, pp. 236-258. ISBN 0802087116
Davies, L. (2005) Conrad, Lily Voynich and the mutton chop of history. In: Curreli, M. (ed.) The Ugo Mursia Memorial Lectures: Second Series: Papers From the International Conrad Conference, University of Pisa, September 16th-18th 2004. Series: Percorsi. Nuova serie (15). ETS: Pisa, Italy, pp. 73-80. ISBN 9788846712271
Davies, L. (2004) 'The thing which was not' and the thing that is also: Conrad's ironic shadowing. In: Kaplan, C., Mallios, P. and White, A. (eds.) Conrad in the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Approaches and Perspectives. Routledge: New York, pp. 223-237. ISBN 9780415971645
Davies, L. (2002) Seductions of the word: Conrad and Soyinka. In: De Lange, A., Fincham, G. and Krajka, W. (eds.) Conrad in Africa: New Essays on Heart of Darkness. Social Science Monographs: Boulder, pp. 195-210. ISBN 0880339934
Davies, L. (1999) At play in the fields of our ford: Utopian dystopianism in Atwood, Huxley and Zamyatin. In: Slusser, G., Alkon, P., Gaillard, R. and Chatelain, D. (eds.) Transformations of Utopia: Changing Views of the Perfect Society. Series: AMS studies in cultural history (5). AMS Press: New York, NY, USA, pp. 205-214. ISBN 9780404642556
Edited Books
Davies, L., Knowles, O., Moore, G.M. and Stape, J.H. (Eds.) (2007) Uncollected Letters, 1892-1923. Series: Collected letters of Joseph Conrad. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780521881890
Davies, L. and Stape, J.H. (Eds.) (2004) Letters, 1920-1922. Series: Collected letters of Joseph Conrad. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780521561969
Davies, L., Karl, F.R. and Knowles, O. (Eds.) (2002) Letters, 1917-1919. Series: Collected letters of Joseph Conrad. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780521561952