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Addison Neil

Addison Neil
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Professor
Research field  (1): Literature - British/English-language
Research keywords  (3): British Poetry ,  Science and Literature Studies ,  Victorian Literature
Papers (40):
  • Neil Addison. The Hardy Tree Headstones, ‘The Levelled Churchyard' and Thomas Hardy's Grave Humour. The Thomas Hardy Journal. 2023. XXXIX. 17-34
  • Neil Addison. Thomas Hardy's Evolution Amongst The Poets: Hardy's "Harmony of View with Darwin" and Shelley. ハーディの研究: The Journal of the Thomas Hardy Society of Japan. 2023. 49. 57-81
  • Neil Addison. "Many a Beast Therein": Christianity and Evolution in Alfred Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam A.H.H and Idylls of the King. Faculty of Integrated Arts and Social Sciences Journal. 2023. 33. 105-120
  • Neil Addison. Enjoyment and Hope in Thomas Hardy's Architecture Poems. The Thomas Hardy Journal. 2022. XXXVIII. 108-127
  • Neil Addison. Both Exquisite and Grotesque: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Evolution. Poetica. 2021. 95 & 96. 125-146
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MISC (3):
  • Neil Addison. George Crabbe’s Microscopic Detail, John Ruskin’s Gothic Stonework and Thomas Hardy’s Decorative Touch. News From the Thomas Hardy Society of Japan. 2024. 95. 7-11
  • Neil Addison. Wessex, Dorset and the Stellar Show. News From the Thomas Hardy Society of Japan. 2017. 81. 1. 3-4
  • Neil Addison. Review: Thomas Hardy, Time and Narrative: a Narratological Approach to His Novels by Ken Ireland. JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS. 2016. 45. 1. 91-96
Books (4):
  • Thomas Hardy's Optimism: Hope and Joy in Hardy's Poetry
    Palgrave Macmillan 2025 ISBN:9783031952234
  • 'Thomas Hardy and the Fog of War: Dickensian Gloom and Gathering Gloam in Hardy’s War Poetry' in The Interconnections between Victorian Writers, Artists and Places, 172-199
    CSP 2019 ISBN:1527538257
  • 'Turner, Dickens and Melville at the Mercy of the Sea: The Nineteenth-Century Sublime in Britain and America' in The Interconnections between Victorian Writers, Artists and Places, 200-228
    CSP 2019
  • '“Rotten Architecture, But Wonderful Gargoyles”: The Murky World of London and Charles Dickens’ Aesthetic Signposts' in London and Literature 1603-1901, 79-93
    CSP 2017 ISBN:1443812757
Lectures and oral presentations  (49):
  • Dickens’s Miasma, Hardy’s ‘A Changed Man’ and the British Cholera Epidemics
    (International Congress of History of Science and Technology, University of Otago, New Zealand 2025)
  • Dimensional Fusions in H.G.Wells and Thomas Hardy
    (Nineteenth-Century Studies Association 2025: Fusions of Culture, Time, and Space, New Orleans 2025)
  • The Complex Science of Tennyson and Wilde: Poetic Evolution in the Nineteenth-Century
    (Science With/In Literature, International Symposium, Chungbuk National University, Korea 2024)
  • Rethinking Science and Literature in a Global Context: Utopian Horizons, Material Displacements, Affective Disordering
    (Rethinking the Global in English Studies Conference, ELLAK, Seoul National University 2024)
  • ‘Waiting Both’: Einstein and Hardy’s Fourth Dimension
    (International Conference of Three Societies on Literature and Science BSLS, CoSciLit and SLSAeu, University of Birmingham, UK (online presentation) 2024)
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Education (1):
  • 2015 - 2021 University of Birmingham PhD in English Literature
Professional career (1):
  • PhD in English Literature (University of Birmingham)
Work history (2):
  • 2022/04 - 現在 Japan Women's University Department of Humanities and Culture Professor
  • 2018 - 2022 Japan Women's University Department of Humanities and Culture Associate Professor
Awards (1):
  • 2018/11 - 日本ヴィクトリア朝文化研究学会 優秀論文賞佳作 [Dickens, Hardy and "a London Particular": Scientific Entropy, Medical Epidemiology and the Miasmic Literary City]
Association Membership(s) (7):
The Victorian Studies Society of Japan ,  The British Association of Victorian Studies ,  The English Literary Society of Japan ,  The George Eliot Fellowship of Japan ,  (CoSciLit) Commission on Science and Literature ,  The Thomas Hardy Society, UK ,  The Thomas Hardy Society of Japan
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