Dr Alexander Deans
- Research Affiliate (School of Critical Studies)
Research interests
Research groups
- Romanticism/18th Century
Publications
2025
Halsey, Katie, Sangster, Matthew 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6452-4813, Aitken, Brian, Baston, Karen, Branagh-Miscampbell, Maxine, Deans, Alex, Kennard Imrie, Jacqueline, Mckeever, Gerard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2019-3984 and Smith, Joshua J.
(2025)
[S]hut Not Thy Heart, nor Thy Library': realising the potential of historical library borrowing data.
In: Gooding, Paul, Terras, Melissa and Ames, Sarah (eds.)
Library Catalogues as Data: Research, Practice and Usage.
Facet Publishing: London, pp. 121-144.
ISBN 9781783306589
2019
Deans, Alexander (2019) Andrew McDonald, Laura (1791). In: London, April (ed.) The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel 1660-1820. Cambridge University Press. (In Press)
Deans, Alexander (2019) Andrew McDonald, The Independent (1784). In: London, April (ed.) The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel 1660-1820. Cambridge University Press. (In Press)
Deans, Alexander (2019) Anon., Hardenbrass and Haverill; Or, The Secret of the Castle (1817). In: London, April (ed.) The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel 1660-1820. Cambridge University Press. (In Press)
Deans, Alexander (2019) Anon., Reft Rob; Or The Witch of Scot-Muir, Commonly Called Madge the Snoover (1817). In: London, April (ed.) The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel 1660-1820. Cambridge University Press. (In Press)
Deans, Alexander (2019) Anon., The Unfortunate Caledonian in England; Or, The Genuine Memoirs of an Impressed Young Gentleman, in the Year 1779 (1781). In: London, April (ed.) The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel 1660-1820. Cambridge University Press. (In Press)
Deans, Alexander (2019) George Brewer, The Motto: Or History of Bill Woodcock (1795). In: London, April (ed.) The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel 1660-1820. Cambridge University Press. (In Press)
Deans, Alexander (2019) Rev. James Thomson, Major Piper; Or The Adventures of a Musical Drone (1793). In: London, April (ed.) The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel 1660-1820. Cambridge University Press. (In Press)
2018
Deans, Alexander (2018) Pastoral optimism at Enlightenment's Frontier: James Hogg's Highland Journeys. In: Benchimol, Alex and McKeever, Gerard Lee (eds.) Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707-1840. Series: Enlightenment world. Routledge: New York, pp. 132-151. ISBN 9781138482937
Deans, Alex (2018) Moral surveillance after Malthus. In: Adelman, Richard and Packham, Catherine (eds.) Political Economy, Literature and the Formation of Knowledge, 1720-1850. Series: Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature (16). Routledge: New York, pp. 137-156. ISBN 9781138542136
2016
Deans, Alex and Leask, Nigel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-7034
(2016)
Curious travellers: Thomas Pennant and the Welsh and Scottish tour (1760-1820).
Studies in Scottish Literature, 42(2),
pp. 164-172.
Articles
Deans, Alex and Leask, Nigel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-7034
(2016)
Curious travellers: Thomas Pennant and the Welsh and Scottish tour (1760-1820).
Studies in Scottish Literature, 42(2),
pp. 164-172.
Book Sections
Halsey, Katie, Sangster, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6452-4813, Aitken, Brian, Baston, Karen, Branagh-Miscampbell, Maxine, Deans, Alex, Kennard Imrie, Jacqueline, Mckeever, Gerard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2019-3984 and Smith, Joshua J.
(2025)
[S]hut Not Thy Heart, nor Thy Library': realising the potential of historical library borrowing data.
In: Gooding, Paul, Terras, Melissa and Ames, Sarah (eds.)
Library Catalogues as Data: Research, Practice and Usage.
Facet Publishing: London, pp. 121-144.
ISBN 9781783306589
Deans, Alexander (2019) Andrew McDonald, Laura (1791). In: London, April (ed.) The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel 1660-1820. Cambridge University Press. (In Press)
Deans, Alexander (2019) Andrew McDonald, The Independent (1784). In: London, April (ed.) The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel 1660-1820. Cambridge University Press. (In Press)
Deans, Alexander (2019) Anon., Hardenbrass and Haverill; Or, The Secret of the Castle (1817). In: London, April (ed.) The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel 1660-1820. Cambridge University Press. (In Press)
Deans, Alexander (2019) Anon., Reft Rob; Or The Witch of Scot-Muir, Commonly Called Madge the Snoover (1817). In: London, April (ed.) The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel 1660-1820. Cambridge University Press. (In Press)
Deans, Alexander (2019) Anon., The Unfortunate Caledonian in England; Or, The Genuine Memoirs of an Impressed Young Gentleman, in the Year 1779 (1781). In: London, April (ed.) The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel 1660-1820. Cambridge University Press. (In Press)
Deans, Alexander (2019) George Brewer, The Motto: Or History of Bill Woodcock (1795). In: London, April (ed.) The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel 1660-1820. Cambridge University Press. (In Press)
Deans, Alexander (2019) Rev. James Thomson, Major Piper; Or The Adventures of a Musical Drone (1793). In: London, April (ed.) The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel 1660-1820. Cambridge University Press. (In Press)
Deans, Alexander (2018) Pastoral optimism at Enlightenment's Frontier: James Hogg's Highland Journeys. In: Benchimol, Alex and McKeever, Gerard Lee (eds.) Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707-1840. Series: Enlightenment world. Routledge: New York, pp. 132-151. ISBN 9781138482937
Deans, Alex (2018) Moral surveillance after Malthus. In: Adelman, Richard and Packham, Catherine (eds.) Political Economy, Literature and the Formation of Knowledge, 1720-1850. Series: Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature (16). Routledge: New York, pp. 137-156. ISBN 9781138542136