Research Interests

Nineteenth-century literature, particularly fiction and drama. 19C serial fiction, the publishing industry, and the periodical press. Victorian drama, particularly playwrighting and publishing. Archaeology, anthropology, ethnography and its representation in 19C fiction and drama. Figures of specialist interest: W.M. Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, William Morris. Director of The Victorian Plays Project, an online archive of 19C plays from 'Lacy's Acting Edition' Director of Wilkie Collins' Plays: A Digital Archive, an online edition of the play manuscripts, prompt copies, and privately printed plays of 19C author Wilkie Collins

 

Books

Pearson, R.G., and B. Rosenbaum (1993) The Index of English Literary Manuscripts (1800-1900), Part 3: Landor to Patmore. London: Mansell. [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (1996) The William Makepeace Thackeray Library, 6 vols. London: Routledge. [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2000) W.M. Thackeray and the Mediated Text: Writing for periodicals in the mid-nineteenth century. Aldershot, Burlington U.S.A., Singapore, Sydney: Ashgate. [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2006) The Victorians and the Ancient World: Archaeology and Classicism in Nineteenth-Century Culture. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [Details]

Book Chapters

Pearson, R.G. (2000) '‘Archaeology and Gothic Desire: Vitality beyond the Grave in Rider Haggard’s Ancient Egypt’' In: Robbins, R. and J. Wolfreys, Victorian Gothic: Literary and Cultural Manifestations in the Nineteenth Century. London, New York: Palgrave Basingstoke. [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2001) '‘Thackeray and Punch at the Great Exhibition: Authority and Ambivalence in Verbal and Visual Caricatures’' In: Purbrick, L., The Great Exhibition of 1851: New interdisciplinary essays. Manchester: Manchester University Press. [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2002) '‘Austen Henry Layard: Bringing Nineveh to the West (End)’' In: Hewitt, M., Culture Institutions. Leeds: Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies. [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2006) ''Domesticating the Goddess: Popular Issues of Class and Gender in J.R. Planche's Classical Extravaganzas'' In: Richard Pearson (eds). Pearson, R.G., The Victorians and the Ancient World. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2006) ''A.H. Layard's Nineveh and Its Remains: The Cultural Material of Assyrian Archaeology'' In: Richard Pearson (eds). Pearson, R.G., The Victorians and the Ancient World. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2007) '‘”Twin Sisters” and “Theatrical Thieves”: Wilkie Collins and the Dramatization of The Moonstone’' In: A. Mangham, Wilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary Essays. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2009) ''Killing Miss Gwilt's Double: Collins' Dramatic Adaptation of Armadale'' In: Mariaconcetta Costantini (eds). Costantini, M., Armadale: Wilkie Collins and the Dark Threads of Life (Studi di Anglistica 17). Rome: Aracne. [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2010) ''Dickens' Great Expectations: Fiction and the Visual Arts'' In: Andrew Maunder and Jennifer Phegley (eds). A. Maunder and J. Phegley, Teaching Nineteenth-Century Fiction. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details]

 

Peer Reviewed Journals

Pearson, R.G. (1991) '‘Silence and Pity: An Unpublished Poem’~ Journal of William Morris Studies'. 9 (2):12-15. [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (1991) '‘The Novel on Blue Paper: Unpublished Fragments’~ Journal of William Morris Studies'. 9 (3):xix-xx. [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (1993) ''W.M. Thackeray: An Unpublished Letter for the Constitutional''. Notes And Queries, 40 (4):474-477. [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (1996) '‘Charles Dickens and Children’s Literature’~ Sustaining the Vision: Papers of the International Association of School Librarianship'. :80-83. [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2004) 'George Gissing and the Ethnographer's I: Civilisation in The Nether World and Eve's Ransom'. Critical Survey, 16 (1):35-51. [Details]

Peason, R.G. (2007) 'Primitive Modernity: H.G. Wells and the Prehistoric Man of the 1890s'. Irish Writing Since 1950, Yearbook Of English Studies, 37 (1):58-74. [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2008) ''Etexts and Archives' (Roundatable contribution)'. Journal Of Victorian Culture, 13 (1):88-93. [Details]

           

Conference Paper

Pearson, R.G. (1995) ‘“Puffing and Fishing”: Thackeray’s Writings for the Periodicals’, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Conference. University of Edinburgh: Conference Paper [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (1995) ‘Charles Dickens and A Child’s History of England’, Children’s Literature conference. University of Worcester: Conference Paper [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (1996) ‘W.M. Thackeray: Negotiating the Periodical Press’. University of Loughborough: Conference Paper [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (1996) ‘Morris’s News from Nowhere: a fin de siecle Fantasy’, William Morris Centenary Conference. University College Scarborough: Conference Paper [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (1997) ‘ Egyptian Archaeology, Sexual Desire & the Death Drive’, UW public research lectures. Conference Paper [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (1997) ‘Victorian Drama: The Forgotten Texts’, UW public research conference. Conference Paper [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (1997) Thackeray and Punch at the Great Exhibition’, UW, 1851 Conference. Conference Paper [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2001) 2000 ‘Visible Texts: Victorian Drama and Print Culture’, Victorian Cultures conference. University of Hertfordshire: Conference Paper [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2001) ‘Primitive Modernity: H.G. Wells in the 1890s’, The 1890s conference. University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Conference Paper [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2001) ‘Theirs or Ours? Charles Lever’s Tom Burke of “Ours” and the Irish Military Novel in the mid-Nineteenth Century’, Facts and Fictions: Ireland and the Novel in the Nineteenth Century conference. Cardiff University: Conference Paper [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2002) ‘George Gissing and the Civilised Man’, MIVS lectures. Birmingham: Conference Paper [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2002) ‘The authorial ideal: anxieties of authorial identity in Thackeray's Pendennis’,Idealisms and Materialisms conference. University of Hull: Conference Paper [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2002) Bringing Nineveh to the West (End)’, Culture Institutions conference,Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies. Trinity and All Saints college: Conference Paper [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2003) ‘George Gissing: The Ethnographer’s “I”’, George Gissing and the City conference. University of London: Conference Paper [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2004) ‘The Interdisciplinary MA course’, Pedagogies conference. Edge Hill College: Conference Paper [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2004) ‘Victorian Archaeology and Popular Culture’, UW public research lectures. Conference Paper [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2005) ‘T. H. Lacy and the Publication of Victorian Plays’. University of Leicester: Conference Paper [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2005) ‘Puffing and Fishing: W. M. Thackeray and the Culture of Advertising’,The Thackeray Society. Reform Club, London: Conference Paper [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2005) ‘The Forgotten Texts of Victorian Plays’, UW public research conference. Conference Paper [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2005) ‘Dickens, Doubles and Drama; or, A Tale of Two Literatures’. University of Pescara, Italy: Conference Paper [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2007) ‘Dickens, Doubles, Adapatations: A Tale of Two Literatures’, Victorian Dramas conference. University of Worcester: Conference Paper [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2007) ‘Wilkie Collins and the Instability of the Play Text’, Theatre Historiographies conference. University of Birmingham: Conference Paper [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2008) ‘Dramatic Grub Street; or, The Trouble with Victorian Plays’, public Professorial Inaugural Lecture. University of Worcester: Conference Paper [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2009) ‘Performing Histories: Thackeray and The Virginians’, Past v. Present conference. University of Cambridge: Conference Paper [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2010) ”partner secured”: Dickens and Collins’ No Thoroughfare’, Victorian Popular Culture conference. University of London: Conference Paper [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2010) ‘William Morris and the Kelmscott Chaucer’, Chaucer conference. NUI Galway: Conference Paper [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2011) Critical Theory lecture series, Department of English, Shandong Teachers’ . University, Jinan, P.R. China: Conference Paper [Details]

             

Other Item

Peason, R.G. (2001) ‘Charles Dickens – Criticism on the Later Novels’~ Annotated Bibliography for English Studies (Amsterdam: Swets and Zeitlinger~ 1998--2001) [CD-Rom and on-line database of literary criticism; bibliography and article/book summaries] [over 80 entries]. Other Item [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2011) Script of Wilkie Collins, The Red Vial (play), from manuscript sources, for four productions, dir. Caroline Radcliffe. University of Birmingham: Other Item [Details]

 

Reviews

Pearson, R.G., Peterson, W.S. (1992) A History of William Morris’s Typographical Adventure, Journal of William Morris Studies. Reviews [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (1997) Edgar Harden, A Checklist of Contributions by W.M. Thackeray to Newspapers, Periodicals, etc., Victorian Periodicals Review. Reviews [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2002) Peter Shillingsburg, W.M. Thackeray: A Literary Life, Victorian Studies. Reviews [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2002) Nicholas Daly, Modernism, Romance and the fin de siecle, Lynda Dryden, Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Romance, Paula Krebs, Gender, Race and the Writing of Empire, Journal of Victorian Culture. Reviews [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2003) Jane Jordan, Josephine Butler, English Historical Review 118 (2003). Reviews [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2005) Inga Bryden, Reinventing King Arthur: The Arthurian Legends in Victorian Culture, British Association for Victorian Studies (website, book reviews section) (2005). Reviews [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2005) Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Dore, London: A Pilgrimage, British Association for Victorian Studies (website, book reviews section). London: Reviews [Details]

Pearson, R.G., Barlow, P. (2005) Time Present and Time Past: The Art of John Everett Millais, British Association for Victorian Studies (website, book reviews section). Reviews [Details]

Pearson, R.G. (2010) Regina Oost, Gilbert and Sullivan: Class and the Savoy Tradition, Theatre Notebook 64.2 (2010), 115-6. Reviews [Details]

Pearson, R.G., Richards, J. (2010) The Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian Stage, Theatre Notebook. Reviews [Details]