Mr Jad Adams

Contact details

Name:
Mr Jad Adams
Qualifications:
MA, BA, FRHistS
Position/Fellowship type:
Research Fellow
Fellowship term:
01-May-2017 to 15-Apr-2020
Institute:
Institute of English Studies
Email address:
jadadams@btinternet.com
Website:
www.jadadams.co.uk

Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:
English Literature, Gender studies
Summary of research interests and expertise:

The lives and literature of women of the 1890s

Project summary relevant to Fellowship:

A long-term research project aimed at 'recovering' some of the more obscure women women writers of the 1890s through a study of their work and biography.

Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date Details
01-Jul-2015 Menie Muriel Dowie: The 'Modern' Woman of Choices

Journal articles

 English Literarture in Transition 1880-1920 Vol 58 No 3 2015 pp313-340

18-Sep-2014 Woman and the Vote: A World History

Monographs

 Oxford University Press

02-Sep-2014 Feminist Solidarity in the Life and Work of Ella Hepworth Dixon

Journal articles

Feminist Solidarity in the Life and Work of Ella Hepworth Dixon The Latchkey vol 5 (summer 2013) http://www.oscholars.com/Latchkey/Latchkey5/5home.htm
 

01-Jun-2014 John Evelyn Barlas, A Critical Biography: Poetry, Anarchism and Mental Illness in Late-Victorian Britain

Review

 

Review: John Evelyn Barlas, A Critical Biography: Poetry, Anarchism and Mental Illness in Late-Victorian Britain (by Philip Cohen) in the academic online review forum Review 19 (www.nbol-19.org) Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Summer 2013

20-Nov-2013 'Tony Benn - The Making of a British Radical'

Chapters

'Tony Benn - The Making of a British Radical' lecture given at the institute for British Studies in Austin, Texas on 26 October 2012. Published as 'Tony Benn' in Irrepressible Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain ed: Wm Roger Lewis, I.B.Tauris 2013 pp.322-36
 

01-Jan-2009 The Drowning of Hubert Crackanthorpe and the Persecution of Leila Macdonald

English Literature in Transition vol. 52 no 1 2009 pp.6-34

01-Jan-2008 Kipling’s Dilemma: Decadent or Hearty?

The Kipling Journal vol 82 no 325 2008 pp.9-27

01-Jan-2007 Gabriela Cunninghame Graham: Deception and Achievement in the 1890s

English Literature in Transition vol.50 no 3 2007 pp.251-268

01-Jan-2006 William and Edna Clarke Hall: Private and Public Childhood “Your Child For Ever”

English Literature in Transition vol. 49 no 4 2006 pp.398-417

01-Jan-2006 Kipling

Haus Publications

01-Jan-2004 Hideous Absithe: A History of the Devil in a Bottle

Monographs

I.B.Tauris

01-Jan-2000 Madder Music, Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson

Monographs

I.B.Tauris

Publications available in Senate House Libraries

Relevant Events

Related events:

Date Details
10-Apr-2014 ‘Yesternight’: The Alexandrine and Memory in Dowson’s Cynara poem

‘Yesternight’: The Alexandrine and Memory in Dowson’s Cynara poem Decadence and the Senses 10-11 April 2014 Goldsmiths’ College University of London
 

01-Jan-2012 The Wonderful Mission of Earl Lavender: Money as the Measure of Evolutionary Success

Victorian Popular Fictin Association Conference, Hard Cash: money, property, economics and the marketplace in Victorian Popular Culture

01-Jan-2011 Feminsit solidarity in the life and work of Ella Hepworth Dixon

IES Dawn of Modernism conference

01-Jan-2011 Rudyard Kipling: A Post-decadent Imperialist?

IES conference Rudyard Kipling - An Internatinal Writer

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