Dr Andrew Radford

Senior Lecturer (English Literature)

telephone: 01413302133
email: Andrew.Radford@glasgow.ac.uk

R314 Level 3, English Literature, 5 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH

Research interests

European Modernism
Leonora Carrington and British Surrealism
Poetry and Politics of the 1930s
Post-1945 British fiction: Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Barbara Comyns, Elspeth Davie, Beryl Bainbridge.
Paul Nash and British Art 1900-1940
Book History and Textual Editing
George Borrow and Travel Literature
Contemporary Literature

Biography

Andrew teaches across a range of Junior and Senior Honours courses in post-1900 literature. He also contributes to the MLitt program in Modernities. He is currently researching postwar British authors such as Elizabeth Taylor, Ann Quin and Anna Kavan and their decisive, though critically undervalued, contribution to the midcentury British novel. He has also published essays, narrative bibliographies, book chapters, and reviews on Katherine Mansfield, Mina Loy, Joseph Conrad, Arthur Machen, Sylvia Townsend Warner and J C Powys.

Andrew has a longstanding research interest in the fiction of Barbara Comyns (1907-1992), whose work has often been misread through labels such as 'magic realist', 'cult writer', or 'fabulist'. Comyns's first novel, Sisters by a River, appeared in 1947; her final novel, The House of Dolls, was published in 1989. Across these four decades, the critical categories available for studying her work changed considerably, from postwar realism and absurdism to feminism and the fantastic. Yet Comyns never settles comfortably within any of them. Her cultural importance lies in the way her fiction frequently tests, and subverts, the categories through which postwar British literature has been discussed.

Andrew's current project, for Edinburgh University Press's Midcentury Modern Writers series, relocates Comyns within the history of postwar British literature by arguing that the distinctive power of her fiction lies not in escapist fantasy but in its weird fidelity to the commonplace, the shopsoiled, and the sub/urban. Rather than breaking with the everyday, Comyns intensifies it. She exposes the fragility of mundane routines and relationships through her attention to childhood experience, poverty, animals and the material textures of domestic life. Although she admired surrealist artists, whose work often privileges dream logic and symbolic transformation, Comyns remains insistently grounded in the palpable, often grisly residues of daily habits and duties. The uncanny in her fiction therefore emerges not through a rejection of social realism but through its escalation: cheerless bedsits and overgrown gardens become strange because they are rendered with such precision and described with such disarming indifference.

The monograph also contends that Comyns's literary legacy is best grasped not simply as a line of direct influence but as a constellation of formal affinities or echoes across later British and North American fiction. Writers such as Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Elspeth Davie, Rachel Ingalls and Helen Oyeyemi illuminate different aspects of the possibilities Comyns's novels make available: her obsession with the uncanny, her refusal of explanatory frameworks, and her willingness to let the paranormal sit quietly inside the everyday. Viewed in this wider context, Comyns emerges not as an eccentric outlier but as a precursor to forms of postwar and contemporary fiction that have since acquired much greater critical visibility.

Topics of completed and current doctoral research projects co/supervised include: eco-criticism, animal studies, and the imperial romance (John Miller); Hope Mirrlees, Jane Harrison and feminist classicism (Nina Enemark); post-1970s eco-cinema and literary adaptation (Djouher Benyoucef); Gothic fiction (Hilary Grimes); British writings on China 1890-1950 (Jacqueline Young and Kun Xi); the role of the adolescent in the fiction by Rosamond Lehmann, Graham Greene and Elizabeth Bowen (Kathryn Johnson); Textile Orientalisms (Suchitra Choudhury); African women writers and gender politics (Sadia Zulfiqar); mapping the 'dark continent' (Robert McLaughlan); writing war (Stuart Hepburn); twentieth-century American fiction and the pastoral mode (Margarida Sao Bento Cadima); the nineteenth-century novel and critical theory (Martina Saric); Early Victorian crime and street literature (Aiman Alshammari). Recent supervision in contemporary literature includes two AHRC-funded students in creative writing.

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 82.

2026

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 and Tee, Ve-Yin (2026) Extremist Landscapes. Palgrave Macmillan: London. (Accepted for Publication)

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2026) Mid-Twentieth-Century Women Writers: Country House Fiction from Elizabeth Bowen to Ivy Compton-Burnett. Liverpool University Press: Liverpool. ISBN 9781805960102 (In Press)

2025

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2025) George Borrow: Northern verse translations from manuscript sources. Translation and Literature, 34(2-3), pp. 223-249. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2025.0628)

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2025) The Wandering Fictions of George Borrow: A Literature on the Move, 1840-1940. Series: Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781399546423

2024

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2024) Mary Butts, Speed the Plough and Other Stories. Literary Encyclopedia, 1.2(1.08),

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2024) Afterword. In: Hawkes, Joel (ed.) Mary Butts: Necessary Contradictions and Feminist Reconstructions. Bloomsbury Academic: London, pp. 234-241. ISBN 9781501380716

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2024) Mary Butts, Death of Felicity Taverner. Literary Encyclopedia, 1.2(1.08),

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2024) Mary Butts, Ashe of Rings. Literary Encyclopedia, 1.2(1.08),

2023

Radford, Andrew D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 and Borrow, George (2023) Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest. [Scholarly Editions]

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2023) Mary Butts, Armed with Madness. Literary Encyclopedia, 1.2(1.08),

Hobson, Suzanne and Radford, Andrew D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (Eds.) (2023) The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism, Myth and Religion. Series: Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474494786

Hobson, Suzanne and Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2023) Introduction to The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism, Myth and Religion. In: Hobson, Suzanne and Radford, Andrew D. (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism, Myth and Religion. Series: Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474494786

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2023) The modernist grail quest. In: Hobson, Suzanne and Radford, Andrew D. (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism, Myth and Religion. Series: Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474494786

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2023) Perspectives on Victorian regional writing. In: Cambridge Introduction to the Regional Novel. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. (Accepted for Publication)

2022

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2022) Hard Roads an Cauld Hairst Winds: Li Bai an Du Fu in Scots. By Brian Holton. Pp. 136. Edinburgh: Taproot Press, 2021. Hb. £15.99. Translation and Literature, 31(3), pp. 388-396. [Book Review]

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2022) The Collected Essays of Mary Butts. Review of English Studies, 73(309), pp. 405-406. (doi: 10.1093/res/hgac022)[Book Review]

2021

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 and Van Hove, Hannah (Eds.) (2021) British Experimental Women’s Fiction, 1945-1975: Slipping Through the Labels. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9783030727659

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 and Van Hove, Hannah (2021) Introduction: (re)mapping the post-war British literary landscape. In: Radford, Andrew and Van Hove, Hannah (eds.) British Experimental Women's Fiction, 1945-1975: Slipping Through the Labels. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 1-37. ISBN 9783030727659 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-72766-6_1)

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2021) No country for old maids? Housing Ivy Compton-Burnett’s mid-century fiction. In: Radford, Andrew and Van Hove, Hannah (eds.) British Experimental Women's Fiction, 1945-1975: Slipping Through the Labels. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 127-151. ISBN 9783030727659 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-72766-6_6)

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 and Corelli, Marie (2021) Marie Corelli, A Romance of Two Worlds: A Novel. [Scholarly Editions]

2018

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2018) Steve Pinkerton, Blasphemous Modernism: The 20th-Century Word Made Flesh. Literature and History, 27(2), pp. 231-233. (doi: 10.1177/0306197318795798k)[Book Review]

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2018) 'Neo-Romanticism'. In: Kolocotroni, Vassiliki and Taxidou, Olga (eds.) The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 255-257. ISBN 9780748637027

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2018) 'Elegy'. In: Kolocotroni, Vassiliki and Taxidou, Olga (eds.) The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 121-122. ISBN 9780748637027

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2018) British fiction 1900-1930. Year's Work in English Studies, 97, pp. 902-914. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/may015)

2017

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2017) Anxieties of mystic influence: Dion Fortune's the winged bull and Aleister Crowley. In: Ferguson, Christine and Radford, Andrew (eds.) The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947. Series: Among the Victorians and Modernists. Routledge: London, pp. 165-180. ISBN 9781472486981

Ferguson, Christine and Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (Eds.) (2017) The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947. Series: Among the Victorians and Modernists. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781472486981

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2017) British fiction 1900-1930. Year's Work in English Studies, 96, pp. 928-944. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/max016)

2016

Anderson, Elizabeth, Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 and Walton, Heather ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4030-8336 (Eds.) (2016) Modernist Women Writers and Spirituality: A Piercing Darkness. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9781137560356

Anderson, Elizabeth, Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 and Walton, Heather ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4030-8336 (2016) Introduction: the intricate persistence of strange Gods. In: Anderson, Elizabeth, Radford, Andrew and Walton, Heather (eds.) Modernist Women Writers and Spirituality: A Piercing Darkness. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9781137530356 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-53036-3_1)

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2016) What lies below the horizon of life: the occult fiction of Dion Fortune. In: Anderson, Elizabeth, Radford, Andrew and Walton, Heather (eds.) Modernist Women Writers and Spirituality: A Piercing Darkness. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 201-218. ISBN 9781137530356 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-53036-3_12)

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2016) Staunin Ma Lane: Chinese Verse in Scots and English, translated by Brian Holton. Translation and Literature, 25(3), pp. 390-395. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2016.0265)[Book Review]

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2016) Mary Butts, the Great Beast, and Scandalous Occulture in the 1920s. Popular Occulture in Britain, 1875-1947, 2016/08.

2015

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2015) XV: Modern literature. Year's Work in English Studies, 94(1), pp. 839-951. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/mav010)

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2015) Mary Butts, Revisionary Classicism and H. Rider Haggard's Cleopatra. Interactions, 24(1-2), [Book Review]

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2015) A 'fine, mysterious, almost sacred fable'? Retelling the Grail Quest in Mary Butts' Armed with Madness. Literature and Theology, 29(3), pp. 298-322. (doi: 10.1093/litthe/fru048)

2014

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2014) Review of: Mutual (In)comprehensions: France and Britain in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Rosemary Mitchell. French History, 28(2), pp. 279-280. (doi: 10.1093/fh/cru034)[Book Review]

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2014) Review of: Lin Shu, Inc: Translation and the Making of Modern Chinese Culture, by Michael Gibbs Hill. Translation and Literature, 23, pp. 139-145. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2014.0142)[Book Review]

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2014) Mary Butts and British neo-romanticism : the enchantment of place. Bloomsbury: London. ISBN 9781441138613

Radford, A. et al. (2014) Modern literature. Year's Work in English Studies, 93(1), pp. 824-950. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/mau004)[Book Review]

2013

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2013) Review of: W.N. Herbert, Y. Lian, B. Holton, and Q. Xiaoyu eds., 'Jade Ladder: Contemporary Chinese Poetry'. Translation and Literature, 22(1), pp. 142-148. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2013.0108)[Book Review]

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2013) Review of 'Huang Fan, Zero and Other Fictions' edited and translated by John Balcom. European Legacy, 17(6), pp. 789-791. (doi: 10.1080/10848770.2013.859795)[Book Review]

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679, Sandberg, E., Bentley, N., Saunders, G. and Miles, N. (2013) Modern literature. Year's Work in English Studies, 92(1), pp. 752-814. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/mat012)

2012

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2012) Review of: David Tod Roy (trans.), The Plum in the Golden Vase, Volume 4. Translation and Literature, 21(2), pp. 251-255. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2012.0074)[Book Review]

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 and Reid, V. (Eds.) (2012) Franco-British Cultural Exchanges, 1880-1940: Channel Packets. Palgrave Macmillan: London, UK. ISBN 9780230283947

Jaffe, A., Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679, Slote, S., Sandberg, E., Bentley, N., D'Monte, R., Saunders, G., Creasy, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2463-656X and Johnston, M. (2012) Modern literature. Year's Work in English Studies, 91(1), pp. 814-904. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/mas008)

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2012) An atlas of unknown worlds: charting interwar Paris in the short stories of Mary Butts. In: Radford, A. and Reid, V. (eds.) Franco-British Cultural Exchanges, 1880-1940: Channel Packets. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK, pp. 187-204. ISBN 9780230283947

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2012) The enchantment of place: Mary Butts, Wessex, and interwar neo-romanticism. National Identities, 14(2), pp. 157-172. (doi: 10.1080/14608944.2012.670213)

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2012) Review of Nicholas Royle (ed.), 'English Romantic Writers and the West Country' (London: Palgrave, 2010). Victoriographies, 2(1), pp. 83-85. (doi: 10.3366/vic.2012.0073)[Book Review]

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 and Vincent, Michèle ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3076-5659 (2012) On the feature composition of participial light verbs in French. In: Brugè, Laura, Cardinaletti, Anna, Giusti, Giuliana, Munaro, Nicola and Poletto, Cecilia (eds.) Functional Heads. Series: Cartography of syntactic structures (7). Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 208-219. ISBN 9780199746729 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199746736.001.0001)

Reid, V. (2012) Marcel Schwob and Robert Louis Stevenson: encounters in death and letters. In: Radford, A. and Reid, V. (eds.) Franco-British Cultural Exchanges, 1880-1940: Channel Packets. Palgrave: Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780230283947

Reid, V. and Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2012) Channel vision. In: Radford, A. and Reid, V. (eds.) Franco-British Cultural Exchanges, 1880-1940: Channel Packets. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK, pp. 1-16. ISBN 9780230283947

2011

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2011) Review of: The Art of Comparison: How Novels and Critics Compare, by Catherine Brown. Translation and Literature, 20(3), pp. 403-408. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2011.0040)[Book Review]

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2011) Review of Ideographic modernism: China, writing, media, by Christopher Bush. Translation and Literature, 20(2), pp. 253-257. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2011.0025)[Book Review]

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679, Slote, S., Harrison, A., Sandberg, E., Bentley, N., D'monte, R., Saunders, G., Creasy, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2463-656X and Johnston, M. (2011) Modern literature. Year's Work in English Studies, 90(1), pp. 780-875. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/mar017)

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2011) Edmund Hodgson Yates. In: Gilbert, Pamela (ed.) A Companion to Sensation Fiction. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, pp. 319-331. ISBN 9781405195584

2010

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2010) Review of 'Günter Leypoldt, Cultural Authority in the Age of Whitman: A Transatlantic Perspective'. Journal of American Studies, 44(2), pp. 445-446. (doi: 10.1017/S0021875810000691)[Book Review]

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2010) Review of: Classical Chinese poetry: an anthology, edited and translated by David Hinton. Translation and Literature, 19(1), pp. 104-110. (doi: 10.3366/E096813610900079X)[Book Review]

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

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2010) Mapping the Wessex Novel: Landscape, History and the Parochial in British Literature, 1870-1940. Series: Continuum literary studies. Continuum: London, UK. ISBN 9780826439680

2009

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2009) Review of: Starve the poets! Selected poems by Yi Sha. Translation and Literature, 18, pp. 275-278. (doi: 10.3366/E0968136109000697)[Book Review]

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2009) Review of: Spring in the ruined city: selected poems of Du Fu, translated by Jonathan Waley, and Yang Lian: riding Pisces: poems from five collections, translated by Brian Holton. Translation and Literature, 18(1), pp. 116-122. (doi: 10.3366/E0968136108000447)[Book Review]

Bentley, N., Creasy, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2463-656X, Grover, M., D'Monte, R., Harrison, A., Jaffe, A., Quinn, J., Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679, Randall, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5502-1296 and Saunders, G. (2009) Modern literature. Year's Work in English Studies, 88(1), pp. 867-989. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/map006)

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2009) An empire of dust. Hardy Society Journal, 6, pp. 23-37.

2008

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2008) Book review: 'Charles C. Haynes, Sam Chaltain and Susan M. Glisson, First Freedoms: A Documentary History of First Amendment Rights in America'. Journal of American Studies, 42(2), (doi: 10.1017/S0021875808005197)[Book Review]

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

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2008) Excavating a Secret History: Mary Butts and the Return of the Nativist. Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate, 17(1), pp. 80-108.

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 and Vincent, Michèle ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3076-5659 (2008) On Past Participle Agreement in Transitive Clauses in French. In: XXXIII Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Bologna, Italy, 01-03 Mar 2007, pp. 142-161.

Vincent, Michèle ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3076-5659 and Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2008) Arguing against obligatory feature inheritance: Evidence from French transitive participle agreement. Rivista di Grammatica Generativa, 33, pp. 175-190.

2007

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

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2007) Review of Patricia Murphy's 'In Science's Shadow'. Style, 41(2), pp. 242-245. [Book Review]

2006

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2006) Review of: City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia, 1870-1920, by J. Bjelopera. Journal of American Studies, 40(3), pp. 648-649. (doi: 10.1017/S0021875806252666)[Book Review]

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2006) Review of: The Cambridge Companion to David Mamet, Christopher Bigsby (ed.). Journal of American Studies, 40(1), pp. 160-161. (doi: 10.1017/S0021875806241318)[Book Review]

Cowley, J., Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679, Hopkins, C., Fogarty, A., Jones, B., Shahriari, L., Brannigan, J., Nicholson, S., Sierz, A. and Quinn, J. (2006) Modern literature. Year's Work in English Studies, 85(1), pp. 744-835. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/mal014)

2005

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2005) Review of Margins of Desire: The Suburbs in Fiction and Culture 1880 – 1925 and Babylon or New Jerusalem? Perceptions of the City in Literature. European Journal of English Studies, 9(3), pp. 329-331. (doi: 10.1080/13825570500364037)[Book Review]

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2005) Review of Fragmenting Modernism: Ford Madox Ford: the Novel and the Great War, E.M. Forster's Modernism and Under English Eyes: Constructions of Europe in Early Twentieth- Century British Fiction. European Journal of English Studies, 8(3), pp. 389-408. (doi: 10.1080/1382557042000277458)[Book Review]

2004

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2004) Evolutionary spectacles: Review of: 'Performance and evolution in the age of Darwin: out of the natural order' by Jane R. Goodall. Cambridge Quarterly, 33(1), pp. 67-70. (doi: 10.1093/camqtly/33.1.67)[Book Review]

Radford, A.D. (2004) The making of a goddess. Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate, 12(2-3), pp. 202-232.

2003

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2003) Thomas Hardy and the Survivals of Time. Routledge. ISBN 9780754607786

2002

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2002) Provincial voices. Cambridge Quarterly, 31(4), pp. 357-360. (doi: 10.1093/camqtly/31.4.357)[Book Review]

Radford, A.D. (2002) The gentleman's estate in Ford Parade's End. Essays in Criticism, 52(4), pp. 314-332. (doi: 10.1093/eic/52.4.314)

2001

Radford, A.D. (2001) Samuel Pepys and the 'Riding'. Notes and Queries, 48(1), pp. 28-29. (doi: 10.1093/nq/48.1.28)

1999

Radford, A.D. (1999) An echo of Dickens in Hardy's Desparate Remedies. Notes and Queries, 46(4), pp. 481-482. (doi: 10.1093/nq/46.4.481)

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Number of items: 82.

Articles

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2024) Mary Butts, Speed the Plough and Other Stories. Literary Encyclopedia, 1.2(1.08),

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2024) Mary Butts, Death of Felicity Taverner. Literary Encyclopedia, 1.2(1.08),

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2024) Mary Butts, Ashe of Rings. Literary Encyclopedia, 1.2(1.08),

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2023) Mary Butts, Armed with Madness. Literary Encyclopedia, 1.2(1.08),

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2018) British fiction 1900-1930. Year's Work in English Studies, 97, pp. 902-914. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/may015)

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2017) British fiction 1900-1930. Year's Work in English Studies, 96, pp. 928-944. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/max016)

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2016) Mary Butts, the Great Beast, and Scandalous Occulture in the 1920s. Popular Occulture in Britain, 1875-1947, 2016/08.

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2015) XV: Modern literature. Year's Work in English Studies, 94(1), pp. 839-951. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/mav010)

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

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2009) An empire of dust. Hardy Society Journal, 6, pp. 23-37.

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

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

Radford, A.D. (2004) The making of a goddess. Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate, 12(2-3), pp. 202-232.

Radford, A.D. (2002) The gentleman's estate in Ford Parade's End. Essays in Criticism, 52(4), pp. 314-332. (doi: 10.1093/eic/52.4.314)

Radford, A.D. (2001) Samuel Pepys and the 'Riding'. Notes and Queries, 48(1), pp. 28-29. (doi: 10.1093/nq/48.1.28)

Radford, A.D. (1999) An echo of Dickens in Hardy's Desparate Remedies. Notes and Queries, 46(4), pp. 481-482. (doi: 10.1093/nq/46.4.481)

Books

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 and Tee, Ve-Yin (2026) Extremist Landscapes. Palgrave Macmillan: London. (Accepted for Publication)

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2014) Mary Butts and British neo-romanticism : the enchantment of place. Bloomsbury: London. ISBN 9781441138613

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2003) Thomas Hardy and the Survivals of Time. Routledge. ISBN 9780754607786

Book Sections

Book Reviews

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2022) The Collected Essays of Mary Butts. Review of English Studies, 73(309), pp. 405-406. (doi: 10.1093/res/hgac022)[Book Review]

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2015) Mary Butts, Revisionary Classicism and H. Rider Haggard's Cleopatra. Interactions, 24(1-2), [Book Review]

Radford, A. et al. (2014) Modern literature. Year's Work in English Studies, 93(1), pp. 824-950. (doi: 10.1093/ywes/mau004)[Book Review]

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2007) Review of Patricia Murphy's 'In Science's Shadow'. Style, 41(2), pp. 242-245. [Book Review]

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 (2002) Provincial voices. Cambridge Quarterly, 31(4), pp. 357-360. (doi: 10.1093/camqtly/31.4.357)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Radford, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 and Reid, V. (Eds.) (2012) Franco-British Cultural Exchanges, 1880-1940: Channel Packets. Palgrave Macmillan: London, UK. ISBN 9780230283947

Scholarly Editions

Radford, Andrew D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 and Borrow, George (2023) Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest. [Scholarly Editions]

Radford, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-2679 and Corelli, Marie (2021) Marie Corelli, A Romance of Two Worlds: A Novel. [Scholarly Editions]

Conference Proceedings

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Grants

AHRC Research Network 2016-

Popular Occulture in Britain 1875-1947

This project investigates the influence of occult beliefs, themes, and figures on British popular culture between 1875-1947.

The enterprise is led by Professor Christine Ferguson (University of Stirling) and Dr Andrew Radford (University of Glasgow)

https://www.stir.ac.uk/popular-occulture-in-britain

The accompanying essay collection The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947, eds. Ferguson and Radford, was published by Routledge in hardback and ebook formats in 2018:

Between 1875 and 1947, a period bookended, respectively, by the founding of the Theosophical Society and the death of notorious occultist celebrity Aleister Crowley, Britain experienced an unparalleled efflorescence of engagement with unusual occult schema and supernatural phenomena such as astral travel, ritual magic, and reincarnationism. Reflecting the signal array of responses by authors, artists, actors, impresarios and popular entertainers to questions of esoteric spirituality and belief, this interdisciplinary collection demonstrates the enormous interest in the occult during a time typically associated with the rise of secularization and scientific innovation. The contributors describe how the occult realm functions as a turbulent conceptual and affective space, shifting between poles of faith and doubt, the sacrosanct and the profane, the endemic and the exotic, the forensic and the fetishistic. Here, occultism emerges as a practice and epistemology that decisively shapes the literary enterprises of writers such as Dion Fortune and Arthur Machen, artists such as Pamela Colman Smith, and revivalists such as Rolf Gardiner.

Supervision

Doctoral Students Past Projects.

PhD Supervision. Degrees awarded:

Hilary Grimes, DPhil in English Literature, University of Glasgow (2006). (75 percent supervision)

Title of thesis: 'Late Victorian Gothic: Mental Science, the Uncanny and Scenes of Writing'.

Timothy Jarvis (AHRC funded), DPhil in Creative Writing, University of Glasgow (2009). (50 percent supervision)

Title of thesis: ‘The Wanderer: Peregrinations in Eldritch Regions’.

John Miller (AHRC funded), DPhil in English Literature, University of Glasgow (2009). (75 percent supervision)

Title of thesis: ‘Colonial Discourse and Natural Environments in British Fiction of Empire, 1850-1940’.

Kathryn Johnson (AHRC funded), DPhil in English Literature, University of Glasgow (2010). (75 percent supervision)

Title of thesis: ‘A Dangerous Age: Adolescent Agencies in Interwar British Literature’.

Robert McLaughlan (AHRC funded), DPhil in English Literature, University of Glasgow (2010). (50 percent supervision)

Title of thesis: ‘Imagined Blackgrounds: The Literary Legacy of Mapping the Dark Continent’.

Jacqueline Young, DPhil in English Literature, University of Glasgow (2011). (75 percent supervision)

Title of thesis: ‘Western Residents of China and their Fictional Writings, 1890–1914’.

Choudhury, Suchitra, DPhil in English Literature, University of Glasgow (2013). (50 percent supervision)

Title of thesis: ‘Textile Orientalisms: Cashmere and Paisley Shawls in British literature’.

Sadia Zulfiqar Chaudhry, DPhil in English Literature, University of Glasgow (2014). (75 percent supervision)

Title of thesis: ‘African women writers and the politics of gender’.

Nina Enemark, DPhil in English Literature, University of Glasgow (2015) (75 percent supervision)

Title of thesis: ‘Re-crossing the Ritual Bridge: Jane Ellen Harrison’s Theory of Art in the Work of Hope Mirrlees’.

Stuart Hepburn, DPhil in English Literature, University of Glasgow (2015) (50 percent supervision)

Title of thesis: ’17 Letters to My Brother: A Scottish Soldier Writes Home – Novella, Screenplay and Reflective Essay’

Alexandra Laura Foulds, DPhil in English Literature, University of Glasgow (2017) (75 percent supervision)

Title of thesis: ‘Gothic monster fiction and the “novel-reading disease”, 1860-1900’.

Kun Xi, DPhil in English Literature, University of Glasgow (2020) (75 percent supervision)

Title of thesis: ‘Mapping Out a “Folded City”: British Resident-travellers’ Writing on Peking, 1911–1939’

Margarida Sao Bento Cadima, DPhil in English Literature, University of Glasgow (2021) (75 percent supervision)

Title of thesis: ‘Pastoral cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s fiction: the world is a welter’.

Alexandra, Abletshauser, DPhil in English Literature, University of Glasgow (2023) (25 percent supervision)

Title of thesis: ‘The Hearth of Reform. Discourses of Love and Strategies of Sympathy in Canadian Women’s Writing, 1890-1914’.

Carole Murphy, MPhil in English Literature, University of Glasgow (2023) (50 percent supervision)

Title of thesis: ‘Walter de la Mare’s Gothic Strategies’.

Martina Saric, DPhil in English Literature, University of Glasgow (2025) (50 percent supervision)

Title of thesis: ‘Bodies of Text and Language of the Senses’.

Aiman Alshammari, DPhil in English Literature, University of Glasgow (2025) (50 percent supervision)

Title of thesis: 'Representing Intimate Partner Murder in Nineteenth-Century British Street Literature'.

Teaching

Narrative and Narratology (Level 1)

Writing and Ecology (Level 2)

Writing and the Body (Level 2)

Modernism (Level 3 & 4)

Contemporary British Literature (Level 3 & 4)

Twentieth-Century American Literature (Level 3 & 4)

MLitt Modernities (Postgraduate Taught Degree)

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Andrew has just published Country House Fiction from Elizabeth Bowen to Ivy Compton-Burnett (2026) for Liverpool University Press. This book argues that the country house is one of the crucial sites in anglophone fiction published just after World War II. Each of the chapters converges on a different author – Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor, Compton-Burnett and Barbara Comyns – to explore how their novels represent building as material and metaphor.

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