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Professor Simon James - all publications

Articles: magazine

• James, Simon J. (2011). Science and Literature. The Grove 17: 33-35.
• James, Simon J. (2010). The Wells Archive at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The H. G. Wells Society Newsletter 5(20): 5-7.
• Simon J. James (2002). Tell Me a Story: Lesley Glaister. Bloomsbury Magazine

Articles: review

• James, Simon J. (2010). Review of Keith Williams, Keith Williams, H. G. Wells, Modernity and the Movies. Science Fiction Film and TV 3(1).
• James, Simon J. (2008). Review of Peter Edgerley Firchow, Modern Utopian Fictions. The Wellsian 31: 55-57.
• James, Simon J. (1998). The Correspondence of H G Wells. The Times Literary Supplement (4962): 14.

Books: authored

• James, Simon J. (2012). Maps of Utopia: H. G. Wells, Modernity and the End of Culture. Oxford University Press.
• James, Simon J. (2003). Unsettled Accounts: Money and Narrative in the Novels of George Gissing.. London: Anthem Press.

Books: edited

• Saul, Nicholas. & James, Simon J. (2011). The Evolution of Literature: Legacies of Darwin in European Cultures. Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 152. Rodopi.
• Simon J. James (2005). H.G. Wells, The History of Mr Polly. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
• Simon J. James (2005). H.G. Wells, Kipps. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
• Simon J. James (2005). H.G. Wells, Love and Mr Lewisham. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
• Simon J. James (2005). H.G. Wells, The New Machiavelli. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
• Simon J. James (2004). George Gissing, Charles Dickens: A Critical Study. London: Grayswood.

Edited essays

• Shapcott, John. (2010). Some Versions of Realism: Arnold Bennett and H. G. Wells. Arnold Bennett Society.

Edited works: contributions

• Simon J. James (2000). 'George Gissing'. 'Demos'. 'In the Year of Jubilee'. 'The Odd Women'. In The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Margaret Drabble. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Essays in edited volumes

• James, Simon J. (2011). H. G. Wells's The Time Machine and the End of Literature. In The Evolution of Literature: Legacies of Darwin in European Cultures. James, Simon J. & Saul, Nicholas. Rodopi. 113-123.
• Saul, Nicholas. & James, Simon J. (2011). Introduction: The Evolution of Literature. In The Evolution of Literature: Legacies of Darwin in European Cultures. Saul, Nicholas. & James, Simon J. Rodopi. 9-18.
• James, Simon J. (2011). Realism and the Fiction of Modern Life: From Meredith to Forster. In The Reinvention of the British and Irish Novel 1880-1940. Parrinder, Patrick. & Gasiorek, Andrzej. Oxford University Press. 4: 87-102.
• James, Simon J. (2008). The Mystery of Edwin Drood. In A Companion to Charles Dickens. Paroissien, David. Malden, MA: Blackwell. 444-451.
• James, Simon J. (2008). Fin-de-Cycle: Romance and the Real in The Wheels of Chance. In H. G. Wells: Interdisciplinary Essays. McLean, Steven. Amersham: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 34-48.
• James, Simon J. (2005). 'The Discontents of Everyday Life: Civilization and the Pathology of Masculinity in The Whirlpool'. In George Gissing: Voices of the Unclassed. Ryle, Martin. & Bourne Taylor, Jenny. Aldershot: Ashgate. 93-105.
• James, Simon J. (2005). In Public: George Gissing, Newspapers and the City. In Gissing and the City: Cultural Crisis and the Making of Books in Late-Victorian England. Spiers, John. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 189-188.
• James, Simon J. (2004). 'Pip's Counterfeit Money: Forgery and Great Expectations.'. In Fakes and Forgeries. Knight, Peter. & Long, Jonathan. Amersham: Cambridge Scholars Press. 41-49.
• James, Simon J. (2001). 'Experiments in Realism: How to Read a George Gissing Novel'. In A Garland for Gissing. Bouwe Postmus Amsterdam: Rodopi. pp. 11-21.
• James, Simon J. (1999). 'Pathological Comsumption: Commodities and the End of Culture in H G Wells' Tono-Bungay'. In Consuming for Pleasure: Selected Essays on Popular Fiction. Julia Hallam & Nickianne Moody. Liverpool: Liverpool John Moores University Press. 44-61.

Journal papers: academic

• James, Simon J. (2013). Marie Corelli and the Value of Literary Self-Consciousness: The Sorrows of Satan, Popular Fiction, and the Fin-de-Siècle Canon. Victorian Literature and Culture 1-18.
• James, Simon J. (2012). Witnessing the End of the World: H. G. Wells's Educational Apocalypses. Literature and Theology 26(4): 459-473.
• James, Simon J. (2011). Research-Led Teaching? The Gissing Journal 47(4): 11-14.
• James, Simon J. (2011). Teaching Gissing in the Twenty-first Century. The Gissing Journal 47(4): 1-3.
• James, Simon J. (2008). A Prophet Looking Backwards: H. G. Wells's Curriculum for the Future. English 57(218): 107-124.
• James, Simon J. (2001). The Truth about Gissing: Reassessing the Literary Friendship of George Gissing and H.G. Wells. The Wellsian 24: 2-21.
• Simon J. James (1997). Negotiating The Whirlpool. The Gissing Journal 33(2): 15-25.

Other media: research

• Simon J. James & Walker, David. (1993). Sissinghurst.