Research - Professor Glenda Norquay

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I have three main areas of research interest - Robert Louis Stevenson and late nineteenth-century literary culture; Scottish women’s writing; and British women’s suffrage fiction – and my work is driven by an engagement with the intersections of literature and cultural history. Publications in these areas, include Robert Louis Stevenson and Theories of Reading (2007), anthologies of suffrage fiction, essays on Scottish fiction, and The Collected Works of Lorna Moon (2002).

Work-in-progress
I am currently editing Stevenson’s late, unfinished and critically- neglected novel St Ives and have recently returned from research visits to Princeton and Yale libraries and a Fellowship at The Huntington Library, California, looking at various versions of the manuscript. I am also Editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women’s Writing, due to be published June 2012 by  Edinburgh University Press. I have recently completed  the R. L. Stevenson entry for Oxford Bibliographies Online (OUP) and am working on a larger project on late nineteenth-century literary cultures.

Selected Publications

Books:
Robert Louis Stevenson and Theories of Reading: the reader as vagabond (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007).

Women’s Suffrage Literature, co-ed. K. Cockin & S. Park: 6 vol set.  Co-written General
Introduction and Introductions to Volumes V (ix-xi); VI (ix-xi), (London: Taylor & Francis, 2007).

Collected Writings of Lorna Moon   (Edinburgh: Black and White Publishing, 2002) Introduction;Endnotes.

Across the Margins: identity and cultural change in the Atlantic Archipelago, co-ed. G. Smyth
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002).

Stevenson on Fiction: An Anthology of Literary and Critical Essays, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press, 1999) Introduction; Endnotes.

Voices and Votes: A Literary Anthology of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign, (Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 1995) Introduction; Chronology; Biographies; Textual Commentary).

Recent Journal Articles
‘Robert Louis Stevenson and Stanley J. Weyman: Reviving Romances or Aging Adventurers’ English Literature in Transition (forthcoming, January 2012).

‘Transitory Thresholds: metaphoric geographies in women’s writing from the Northeast of Scotland’ Scottish Literary Review (forthcoming, 2011)

‘Squandering names: place, nomenclature and cultural identity’, Journal of Stevenson Studies 7 (2010), pp 107- 129.

‘Mediating women’s suffrage literature’ (with S. Park), Women Studies  International
Forum, 29 (2006), 301-306.

‘Finding a Place: the Voice of Lorna Moon’, Études écossaises Numéro 9, (2004), 91-103.

‘Ghost Writing: Stevenson and Dumas’ Journal of Stevenson Studies,  1 (2003), 60-75.

‘Waking Up in a Different Place’ (with G. Smyth), Irish Review 28 (2003), ‘Ireland and Scotland:
Colonial Legacies and National Identities’, 28-45.

Book Chapters
‘Genrre Fiction’, The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women’s Writing (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012) forthcoming.

‘Stevenson and American Contexts’ in MLA Approaches to Stevenson, ed. C. McCracken-Flesher (MLA: forthcoming, 2011)

‘Partial to Intensity: the Novels of A.L. Kennedy’, The Contemporary British Novel, J.
Acheson & S. Ross (eds) (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007), 142-153.

‘Trading Texts: Stevenson and Negotiations of the Popular’, Robert Louis Stevenson: Writer
 of Boundaries, R. Ambrosini & R. Drury (eds)  (Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press 2006), 60-69.

‘"Flourishing Through Oppression: The Camomile", Opening the Doors: the Achievement of
Catherine Carswell, C. Anderson (ed.), (Edinburgh: Ramsay Head Press), 2003, 124-136.

‘Fraudulent Moochers: The Fiction of Janice Galloway’, Contemporary Scottish Women’s
Writing, A. Christianson & A. Lumsden (eds) (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000),
131-43.

‘Borderlines: Jessie Kesson: The White Bird Passes’, Twentieth Century Scottish Women’s
Writing: Journeys into Being, C. Anderson & A.Christianson (eds) (East Lothian: Tuckwell Press, 2000).

‘Welcome, Oh! mine own rugged Scotland: Gender and Landscape in Scottish
Fiction’ Romanticism in Wild Places: Paul Edwards Memorial Volume,(Edinburgh:  Quadriga Press) 1999, 176-99.

‘Catherine Carswell’s Open the Door!’, A History of Scottish Women's Writing, ed. D.
Gifford & D. McMillan (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), 1997, 389-99.

‘Disruptions: the later fiction of Robin Jenkins’, The Scottish Novel Since the Seventies ,
G. Wallace & R. Stevenson  (eds), (Edinburgh:  Edinburgh University Press 1993), 11-25.
 
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