Directory of Research and Expertise

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Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:

English Literature, History of the book, Manuscript studies

Regions:

England, Scotland, United Kingdom

Summary of research interests and expertise:

History of the book since 1750; history of publishing; history of authorship; literary and publishing archives; modern manuscripts; the publishing history of the novel in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Victorian literature, especially Victorian popular fiction; the 1890s; the sea story.

Twentieth-century literature, especially inter-war fiction.

Scottish literature since 1750, especially J.M. Barrie; Robert Louis Stevenson; Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish literary renaissance; Muriel Spark; the history of Scottish publishing.  

Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date	Details
14-Mar-2024	The British Publishing Industry in the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 1: The Structure of the Industry Edited Book The British Publishing Industry in the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 1: The Structure of the Industry, ed. David Finkelstein and Andrew Nash (London & New York: Routledge, 2024)
14-Mar-2024	The British Publishing Industry in the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 2: Publishing and Technologies of Production Edited Book The British Publishing Industry in the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 2: Publishing and Technologies of Production, ed. David Finkelstein and Andrew Nash (London & New York: Routledge, 2024)
14-Mar-2024	The British Publishing Industry in the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 3: Authors, Publishers and Copyright Law Edited Book The British Publishing Industry in the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 3: Authors, Publishers and Copyright Law, ed. David Finkelstein and Andrew Nash (London & New York: Routledge, 2024)
14-Mar-2024	The British Publishing Industry in the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 4: Publishers, Markets, Readers Edited Book The British Publishing Industry in the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 4: Publishers, Markets, Readers, ed. David Finkelstein and Andrew Nash (London and New York: Routledge, 2024)
01-Jan-2024	Sentimental Literature Chapters 'Sentimental Literature', in A Companion to Scottish Literature, ed. Gerard Carruthers (Hoboken NJ & Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2024), pp. 205-17.
01-Jun-2022	The Kailyard Novelists 'The Kailyard Novelists’, in Sheila Kidd, Caroline McCracken-Flesher and Kenneth McNeil (eds), The International Companion to Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature (Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2022), 180-7
08-Jul-2021	The Doppelgänger Writes Back: J.M. Barrie's 'The Body in the Black Box' Articles The Doppelgänger Writes Back: J.M. Barrie's 'The Body in the Black Box', Victorian Popular Fictions Journal, 3.1 (Spring, 2021), 55-67
01-May-2020	Smugglers, Husbands, and Doppelgängers: Barrie and <em>Home Chimes</em> Articles Smugglers, Husbands, and Doppelgängers: Barrie and Home Chimes, Anon: Journal of the J.M. Barrie Literary Society, 3 (2020), 152-172
16-Sep-2019	‘Not to everybody’s palate': Advertising <em>Proust</em> and <em>More Pricks Than Kicks</em> Articles ‘“Not to everybody’s palate”: Advertising Proust and More Pricks Than Kicks’, Journal of Beckett Studies, 28:2 (2019), 129-45.
31-May-2019	The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Vol. 7: the Twentieth Century and Beyond Edited Book  Andrew Nash, Claire Squires and Ian Willison (eds), The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Vol. 7: the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
31-May-2019	Reading and Ownership Chapters 'Reading and Ownership', in Andrew Nash, Claire Squires and Ian Willison (eds), The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Vol. 7: the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 231-264.
31-May-2019	Authorship Chapters  'Authorship', in Andrew Nash, Claire Squires and Ian Willison (eds), The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Vol. 7: the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 99-128.
31-May-2019	Introduction Chapters  'Introduction', in Andrew Nash, Claire Squires and Ian Willison (eds), The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Vol. 7: the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 1-34.
31-May-2019	Literature Chapters Andrew Nash and Jane Potter, 'Literature', in Andrew Nash, Claire Squires and Ian Willison (eds), The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Vol. 7: the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 279-318.
10-May-2019	J.A. Hammerton and J.M. Barrie Articles ‘J.A. Hammerton and J.M. Barrie’, Anon: the J.M. Barrie Literary Society Journal, 2 (2019), 59-70.
28-Jun-2018	Publishers' Archives, Authors' Papers, and Literary Scholarship Chapters  'Publishers' Archives, Authors' Papers, and Literary Scholarship', in David C. Sutton and Ann Livingstone (eds), The Future of Literary Archives: Diasporic and Dispersed Collections at Risk (Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2018), pp. 115-125.
01-May-2018	Ending Dear Brutus on Stage and in Print Articles 'Ending Dear Brutus on Stage and in Print', Anon: The J.M. Barrie Literary Society Journal, Vol. 1 (2018), 19-30.
01-Apr-2016	The Material History of the Novel I: 1940-1973 Chapters The Material History of the Novel I: 1940-1973. In: Boxall, P. and Cheyette, B. (eds.) The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 7: British and Irish Fiction since 1940. (Oxford History of the Novel in English). Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 21-36. ISBN 9780198749394
01-Apr-2016	The Material History of the Novel II: 1973-present Chapters  The Material History of the Novel II: 1973-present. In: Boxall, P. and Cheyette, B. (eds.) The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 7: British and Irish Fiction since 1940. (Oxford History of the Novel in English). Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 401-16. ISBN 9780198749394
01-Jun-2015	Better Dead: J. M. Barrie’s First Book and the Shilling Fiction Market Articles Better Dead: J. M. Barrie’s First Book and the Shilling Fiction Market. Scottish Literary Review, 7 (1). pp. 19-41. ISSN 1756-5634
01-Jan-2015	J.M. Barrie: Auld Licht Idylls and A Window in Thrums Edited Book  J.M. Barrie, Auld Licht Idylls and A Window in Thrums, edited with an introduction by Andrew Nash (Glasgow: Kennedy & Boyd, 2015)
01-Sep-2014	William Clark Russell and the Victorian Nautical Novel: Gender, Genre and the Marketplace Monographs William Clark Russell and the Victorian Nautical Novel: Gender, Genre and the Marketplace. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014). Pp. xi + 231.
01-Jul-2014	New Directions in the History of the Novel Edited Book  Patrick Parrinder, Andrew Nash and Nicola Wilson (eds), New Directions in the History of the Novel (Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
01-Jul-2014	Gateway to the Modern: Resituating J.M. Barrie Edited Book  Valentina Bold and Andrew Nash (eds), Gateway to the Modern: Resituating J.M. Barrie (Glasgow: ASLS, 2014)
01-Jul-2014	Textual instability and the contemporary novel: reading Janice Galloway's The trick is to keep breathing on and off the page Chapters  Textual instability and the contemporary novel: reading Janice Galloway's The Trick is to Keep Breathing on and off the page, in Patrick Parrinder, Andrew Nash and Nicola Wilson (eds), New Directions in the History of the Novel (Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 50-62.
01-Jul-2014	Barrie, Sentimentality, and Modernity Chapters  'Barrie, Sentimentality, and Modernity', in Valentina Bold and Andrew Nash (eds.), Gateway to the Modern: Resituating J.M. Barrie (Glasgow: ASLS, 2014), pp. 103-120.
01-Dec-2013	Covering Muriel Spark: Penguin Books and the Designing of an Author Chapters Covering Muriel Spark: Penguin Books and the Designing of an Author. In: Wootten, W. and Donaldson, G. (eds.) Reading Penguin: A Critical Anthology. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 153-170. ISBN 9781443846165
01-Dec-2013	Serial into Volume Chapters Serial into Volume. In: Mallett, P. (ed.) Thomas Hardy in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 42-53. ISBN 9780521196482
01-Aug-2012	Victorian Scottish Literature Chapters  'Victorian Scottish Literature', in Gerard Carruthers and Liam McIlvanney (eds) The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 145-58.
01-Dec-2011	The 'Shatton and Windup' Affair: Beckett's dealings with the firm of Chatto & Windus, 'Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation' Chapters Andrew Nash and John Pilling, 'The "Shatton and Windup" Affair: Beckett's dealings with the firm of Chatto & Windus, "Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation"', in Mark Nixon (ed.), Publishing Samuel Beckett (London: British Library, 2011), pp. 11-22.
01-Dec-2011	The Production of the Novel, 1880-1940 Chapters  'The Production of the Novel', in Patrick Parrinder and Andrezj Gasiorek (eds.), The Oxford History of the Novel in English, vol. 4: The Reinvention of the British and Irish Novel 1880-1940 (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 3-19.
01-Jun-2011	D. H. Lawrence and the publication of Look! We Have Come Through! Articles  'D. H. Lawrence and the publication of Look! We Have Come Through!', The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 12 (2). pp. 142-163. ISSN 1744-8581
01-Apr-2011	The sense of an ending?: The history of the book in postwar America Review 'The sense of an ending?: The history of the book in postwar America', Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 105:2, 231-241.
01-Jan-2011	Sifting out 'rubbish' in the Literature of the Twenties and Thirties Chapters 'Sifting out “rubbish” in the Literature of the Twenties and Thirties’: Chatto & Windus and the Phoenix Library’, in John Spiers (ed.), The Culture of the Publishers’ Series, Volume 1: Authors, Publishers and the Shaping of Taste (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 188-201.
31-Dec-2010	Freedom and Power? Women, Class and Inheritance in Mrs Alexander’s Her Dearest Foe (1876) Articles ' Freedom and Power? Women, Class and Inheritance in Mrs Alexander's Her Dearest Foe (1876)', Victorians Institute Journal, 38 (2010), 127-47.
01-Sep-2010	A Kailyard Curiosity Articles  ‘A Kailyard Curiosity’, Book Collector, 59:3 (Autumn 2010), 392-8.
01-Sep-2010	Reading the Nation: The History of the Book in America, 1880-1940 Review  Reading the Nation: The History of the Book in America, 1880-1940, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 104:3 (2010), 365-75.
01-Mar-2010	William Clark Russell and Chambers’s Journal: Elopement and the Victorian Nautical Novel Articles William Clark Russell and Chambers’s Journal: Elopement and the Victorian Nautical Novel', Victorian Periodicals Review, 43:1 (Spring, 2010), 42-56.
01-Jan-2010	Ian Maclaren, St Jude's Edited Book   Ian Maclaren, St Jude's, edited with an introduction by Andrew Nash (Glasgow: Kennedy & Boyd, 2010)
31-Dec-2009	A.P. Watt and the Marketing of Ian Maclaren Articles ‘A.P. Watt and the Marketing of Ian Maclaren, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 4 (2009), 49-59.
01-Sep-2009	William Clark Russell: an unattributed early work by the Victorian novelist of the sea Articles  William Clark Russell: an unattributed early work by the Victorian novelist of the sea. Notes and Queries, 56:3 (September, 2009), 396-398.
01-Jan-2009	Mass markets: literature Chapters Simon Eliot and Andrew Nash, 'Mass markets: literature', in David McKitterick (ed.), The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 6: 1830-1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 416-442.
01-Jan-2009	Authorship Chapters Patrick Leary and Andrew Nash, 'Authorship', in in David McKitterick (ed.), The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 6: 1830-1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 172-213.
01-Dec-2008	Hogg's Confessions, S.R. Crockett and the House of Macmillan Articles 'Hogg's Confessions, S.R. Crockett and the House of Macmillan', Studies in Hogg and his World, 19 (2008), 117-121,
01-Nov-2007	Literary Cultures and the Material Book Edited Book  Simon Eliot, Andrew Nash and Ian Willison (eds), Literary Cultures and the Material Book (London: British Library, 2007)
01-Nov-2007	Literary Culture and Literary Publishing in Inter-War Britain: a view from Chatto and Windus Chapters 'Literary Culture and Literary Publishing in Inter-War Britain: a view from Chatto and Windus', in Simon Eliot, Andrew Nash and Ian Willison (eds), Literary Cultures and the Material Book (London: British Library, 2007), pp. 323-42
01-Jun-2007	Kailyard and Scottish Literature Monographs  (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2007), pp. 268.
12-Jan-2007	Authors in the Scottish literary marketplace Chapters 'Authors in the Scottish Literary Marketplace', in David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery (eds), The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 4: Professionalism and Diversity, 1880–2000 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007), pp. 388-408.
12-Jan-2007	Literary Publishing, 1880-1914 Chapters  'Literary Publishing, 1880-1914', in David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery (eds), The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 4: Professionalism and Diversity, 1880–2000 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007), pp. 203-222.
12-Jan-2007	The Changing Face of the Publishing House, 1880-1980 Chapters 'The Changing Face of the Publishing House', in David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery (eds), The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 4: Professionalism and Diversity, 1880–2000 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007), pp. 185-202.
01-Jan-2007	J.M. Barrie and the Third Sex Chapters 'J.M. Barrie and the Third Sex', in Sarah Carpenter and Sarah M. Dunnigan (eds), Joyous Sweit Imaginatioun: Essays on Scottish Literature in Honour of R.D.S. Jack (Amsterdam& New York: Rodopi, 2007), pp. 229-240.
01-Jan-2007	Ian Maclaren, Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Edited Book  Ian Maclaren, Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush, edited with an introduction by Andrew Nash (Glasgow: Kennedy & Boyd, 2007)
01-Jan-2007	S.R. Crockett: The Stickit Minister Edited Book  S.R. Crockett, The Stickit Minister, edited with an introduction by Andrew Nash (Glasgow: Kennedy & Boyd, 2007)
01-Dec-2006	The Kailyard: Problem or Illusion? Chapters 'The Kailyard: Problem or Illusion?', in Ian Brown, Thomas Clancy, Susan Manning and Murry Pittock (eds), The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, vol. 2 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006), pp. 325-32.
01-Dec-2006	The Return of the Native and Belgravia Chapters 'The Return of the Native and Belgravia', in Phillip Mallett (ed.), The Return of the Native. Norton Critical Editions (London: W.W. Norton, 2006), pp. 363-70
01-Dec-2005	Walter Besant’s All Sorts and Conditions of Men and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Articles 'Walter Besant’s All Sorts and Conditions of Men and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’, Notes & Queries, n.s., 52:4 (December 2005), 494-7.
30-Nov-2005	'At the Gates': New Commentaries on a Lost Text by D.H. Lawrence Articles ‘“At the Gates”: New Commentaries on a Lost Text by D.H. Lawrence’, Review of English Studies, Vol. 56, No. 227 (November, 2005), 766-75.
31-Dec-2004	The Publication of Catherine Carswell's Novels Articles 'The Publication of Catherine Carswell's Novels', The Bibliotheck, n.s. 1:1 (2004), 7-26
31-May-2004	William Robertson Nicoll, the Kailyard Novel and the Question of Popular Culture Articles 'William Robertson Nicoll, the Kailyard Novel and the Question of Popular Culture', Scottish Studies Review, 5:1 (2004), 57-73
12-Jan-2004	Ghostly Endings: the Evolution of J.M. Barrie’s Farewell Miss Julie Logan Articles  ‘Ghostly Endings: the Evolution of J.M. Barrie’s Farewell Miss Julie Logan’, Studies in Scottish Literature, 33 (2004), 124-137.
31-Dec-2003	The dead should be protected from their own carelessness&quot;: the collected editions of Robert Louis Stevenson Chapters '"The dead should be protected from their own carelessness": the collected editions of Robert Louis Stevenson', in Andrew Nash (ed.), The Culture of Collected Editions (Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), pp. 111-27
31-Dec-2003	Frank Swinnerton on John Cowper Powys Articles  ‘Frank Swinnerton on John Cowper Powys', Powys Journal, XIII (2003), 166-78.
01-Dec-2003	The Culture of Collected Editions Edited Book The Culture of Collected Editions (Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
01-Dec-2003	The Culture of Collected Editions: Authorship, Reputation, and the Canon Chapters  The Culture of Collected Editions: Authorship, Reputation, and the Canon, The Culture of Collected Editions (Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 1-15
01-Jan-2003	A Publisher&rsquo;s Reader on the Verge of Modernity: the Case of Frank Swinnerton Articles 'A Publisher’s Reader on the Verge of Modernity: the Case of Frank Swinnerton’, Book History Vol. 6 (2003), 175-95.
31-Dec-2002	Charles Prentice and T.F. Powys: a Publisher’s Influence Articles Andrew Nash and James Knowlson, 'Charles Prentice and T.F. Powys: a Publisher’s Influence’, Powys Journal, XII (2002), 35-66.
01-Dec-2002	Life in Gissing’s New Grub Street: David Christie Murray and the Practice of Authorship, 1880-1900 Articles 'Life in Gissing’s New Grub Street: David Christie Murray and the Practice of Authorship, 1880-1900’, Publishing History, LI (2002), 23-61.
30-Jun-2001	The Serialization and Publication of The Return of the Native: a new Thomas Hardy Letter Articles  'The Serialization and Publication of The Return of the Native: a new Thomas Hardy Letter', The Library: the Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 2:1 (2001), 53-59
01-Dec-2000	Understanding the Land in Scot(t)land Conference papers 'Understanding the Land in Scot(t)land', in Susanne Hagemann (ed.), Terranglian Territories: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on the Literature of Region and Nation (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang), pp. 631-40
01-Dec-2000	Farewell, Miss Julie Logan: A J.M. Barrie Omnibus Edited Book  Farewell, Miss Julie Logan: A J.M. Barrie Omnibus, edited with an introduction and notes by Andrew Nash (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2000)
01-Sep-2000	Two Unpublished Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Articles 'Two Unpublished Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Notes & Queries, 47:3 (2000), 334-336.
01-Dec-1999	Robert Buchanan and Chatto & Windus: Reputation, Authorship, and Fiction as Capital in the late Nineteenth Century Articles  ‘Robert Buchanan and Chatto & Windus: Reputation, Authorship, and Fiction as Capital in the late Nineteenth Century’, Publishing History, XLVI (1999), 5-33.
01-Oct-1999	'A Phenomenally Slow Producer': J.M. Barrie, Scribner’s, and the Publication of Sentimental Tommy Articles  ‘“A Phenomenally Slow Producer”: J.M. Barrie, Scribner’s, and the Publication of Sentimental Tommy’, Yale University Library Gazette, Vol. 74, Nos. 1-2 (Oct. 1999), 41-53.
01-Jun-1999	From Realism to Romance: Gender and Narrative Technique in J.M. Barrie’s The Little Minister Articles ‘From Realism to Romance: Gender and Narrative Technique in J.M. Barrie’s The Little Minister’, Scottish Literary Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1 (June, 1999), 77-92.
01-Apr-1999	'Trying to be a Man': J.M. Barrie and Sentimental Masculinity Articles  ‘“Trying to be a Man”: J.M. Barrie and Sentimental Masculinity’, Forum for Modern Language Studies, Vol. 35, No. 2 (April, 1999), 113-127
31-Dec-1998	The Compilation of J.M. Barrie's Auld Licht Idylls 'The Compilation of J.M. Barrie's Auld Licht Idylls', The Bibliotheck, 23 (1998), 85-96
31-Dec-1997	The Cottar's Kailyard Chapters  'The Cottar's Kailyard', in Robert Crawford (ed.), Robert Burns and Cultural Authority (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997), 180-97
31-Dec-1996	Re-reading the 'Lad o' Pairts': the Myth of the Kailyard Myth Articles  Re-reading the 'Lad o' Pairts': the Myth of the Kailyard Myth, Scotlands, 3:2 (1996), 86-102

Research Projects & Supervisions

Research projects:

Details
The Society of Authors,1884-1914: Professional Association and Literary Property Institute of English Studies Project period: 09-Sep-2020 - 31-Aug-2024 Research interests: English Literature, History of the book
The Scottish Revival Network Collaborative research project funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and led by Dr Scott Lyall (Edinburgh Napier University) and Dr Michael Shaw (University of Stirling)
The Society of Authors, 1884-1914: Professional Association and Literary Property Collaborative research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust (October 2020-October 2024). PI: Professor Richard Salmon (University of Leeds) CIs: Dr Andrew Nash (IES), Professor Claire Pettitt (Kings College London)

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