Textual Practice Special Issue: Style - Volume 35, Issue 6 (2021)
(2021)
Book
Masters, B. (Ed.). (2021). Textual Practice Special Issue: Style - Volume 35, Issue 6 (2021). Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Outputs (6)
Adjustment-style: from H. G. Wells to Ali Smith and the metamodern novel (2021)
Journal Article
Masters, B. (2021). Adjustment-style: from H. G. Wells to Ali Smith and the metamodern novel. Textual Practice, 35(6), 967-995. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2021.1935750The Wells-James debate about the function of the novel has influenced decades of formalist and humanist criticism that has elevated Henry James as the quintessential ethical stylist and struggled to come to terms with H.G. Wells's literary artistry.... Read More about Adjustment-style: from H. G. Wells to Ali Smith and the metamodern novel.
Introduction: the new stylism (2021)
Journal Article
Masters, B. (2021). Introduction: the new stylism. Textual Practice, 35(6), 901-919. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2021.1939432To theorise style and stake its value seem more than ever urgent matters. This article suggests that a ‘style consciousness’ has become prevalent in criticism of different kinds–from the scholarly to the creative to the essayistic–where style has re-... Read More about Introduction: the new stylism.
Indie Style: Reversed Forecast and a Turn-of-the-Century Aesthetic (2020)
Book Chapter
Masters, B. (2020). Indie Style: Reversed Forecast and a Turn-of-the-Century Aesthetic. In B. Schoene (Ed.), Nicola Barker: Critical Essays (23-42). Gylphi
The Mid-Atlantics (2019)
Book Chapter
Masters, B. (2019). The Mid-Atlantics. In The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction: 1980-2018 (201-218). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108649865
Novel style: ethics and excess in English fiction since the 1960s (2017)
Book
Masters, B. (2017). Novel style: ethics and excess in English fiction since the 1960s. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198766148.001.0001