Materialities

Working under the broad heading of Materialities, this group undertakes research into textual scholarship, material cultures and performance practice.

We have produced editions of world-leading importance including the works of Margaret Oliphant (Chatto and Windus), John Ford (Oxford University Press), and Ben Jonson (Cambridge University Press). Further editorial work in progress includes an edition of Elizabeth Montagu’s letters, supported by an AHRC Networking Grant, and the Longman edition of Christina Rossetti’s poems. Group members have also worked extensively with practice-based researchers at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Pegasus Theatre.

More generally, our work explores the material texts and objects which people make, give and exchange – and considers how these things acquire meaning in the world. Our research engages fundamentally with the different things that ‘matter’ when we write, read, watch or otherwise experience literature.