Recent Scholarship
Recent Scholarship: 2016–Present
Compiled and Updated Annually
Please send updates to Anna Merz (acmerz@email.unc.edu) and/or Katherine Stein (katherine.stein@unc.edu).
The recent scholarship page is organized by broad time or period divisions. Click on a time period below to search within it for scholarship on your chosen author.
800-1400
COLLECTED & COLLABORATIVE JUVENILE WORKS
Ward, John O. “Prefatory Introduction to the Volume [B]” and “Rhetoric Medieval and Modern.” Classical Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: The Medieval Rhetors and Their Art 400–1300, with Manuscript Survey to 1500 CE, Brill, 2019, pp. 44–91.
1500-1600
GALILEO
Malara, Ivan. “Galileo and His Sources?: A Different Methodological Approach to Galileo’s Juvenilia.” Galilæana: Journal of Galilean Studies, vol. 16, 2019, pp. 1–40.
COLLECTED & COLLABORATIVE JUVENILE WORKS
Higginbotham, Jennifer. “Writing Girls in Early Modern England.” Literary Cultures and Medieval and Early Modern Childhoods, edited by Naomi J. Miller and Diane Purkiss, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. 169–86.
1700
AUSTEN, JAMES
Peterson, Lesley. “Things and Theatricality: James Austen’s Quest for Virtuous Drama.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2023, pp. 80–94. doi:10.29173/jjs82.
AUSTEN, JANE
Alexander, Christine. “Why Literary Juvenilia? A Context for Jane Austen’s Youthful Writings.” Persuasions, vol. 42, no. 1, 2020, pp. 15–27.
———. The Beautifull Cassandra: A Novel in Twelve Chapters. Afterword by Claudia L. Johnson, Princeton UP, 2018.
———. Edgar and Emma and The Three Sisters. Edited by Juliet McMaster with Adela Burke and Aaron Mazo, Juvenilia Press, 2020. Limited Edition.
Austen, Jane. Sir Charles Grandison. Edited by Lesley Peterson, Sylvia Hunt, et. al., Juvenilia Press, 2022.
———. Teenage Writings. Edited by Kathryn Sutherland and Freya Johnston, Oxford UP, 2017.
Bander, Elaine. “Reason, Romanticism, or Revolution? Jane Austen Rewrites Charlotte Smith in Catharine, or the Bower.”Persuasions On-Line, vol. 41, no. 1, 2020.
Dabundo, Laura. Jane Austen: A Companion. McFarland, 2021.
Davis, Kathryn. “The Author and the Phoenix.” Persuasions, vol. 42, no. 1, 2020, pp. 28–44.
Doi, Ryoko. “Catharine, Catherine, and Young Jane Reading History: Jane Austen and Historical Writing.” Persuasions On-Line, vol. 41, no. 1, 2020.
Dooley, Gillian. “Juvenile Songs and Lessons: Music Culture in Jane Austen’s Teenage Years.” Persuasions On-Line, vol. 41, no. 1, 2020.
———. “Wishing the Juvenilia Away: Jane Austen’s Advice to Caroline.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 2023, 125–35. doi:10.29173/jjs81.
Friedman, Emily C. “Conclusion: The Great Unscenting.” Reading Smell in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Bucknell UP, 2016, pp. 119–28.
———. “Austen Among the Amateurs.” Austen After 200, edited by Kerry Sinanan, Annika Bautz, and Daniel Cook, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp. 59–80.
Hatton, Nikolina. “‘Very Conspicuous on One of His Fingers’: Generative Things in Austen’s Juvenilia, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma.” The Agency of Objects in English Prose, 1789–1832: Conspicuous Things, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 91–136.
Havens, Hilary. “Jane Austen.” Revising the Eighteenth Century Novel: Authorship from Manuscript to Print, Cambridge UP, 2019, pp. 90–123.
Hemingway, Collins. “Northanger Abbey: The Bridge to Austen’s Mature Works—And More.” Persuasions On-Line, vol. 40, no. 1, 2019.
Johnston, Freya. Jane Austen, Early and Late. Princeton UP, 2021.
Kenney, Theresa. “‘Abjuring All Future Attachments’: Concluding Lady Susan.” Persuasions On-Line, no. 41, no. 1, 2020.
Keymer, Tom. “Jane Austen Practising.” Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics, Oxford UP, 2020, pp. 12–29.
Leffel, John C. “‘Setting at Naught All Rules of Probable or Possible’: Jane Austen’s ‘Juvenilia.’” The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Cheryl A. Wilson and Maria H. Frawley, Routledge, 2021, pp. 106–24.
Maurer, Shawn Lisa. “Pleasure and Danger: Theorizing Adolescence in and through Austen.” Jane Austen and Critical Theory, edited by Michael Kramp, Routledge, 2021, pp. 179–96.
McGivney, Jessica. “‘Fevers, Swoons, and Tears’: What If Jane Austen Were Reading Mary Wollstonecraft in the Analytical Review?” Persuasions On-Line, vol. 41, no. 1, 2020.
McMaster, Juliet. “‘Destined…for the Sea’: The Hero of ‘Catherine, or the Bower’?”. Persuasions On-Line, vol. 38, no. 1, 2017.
———. “‘Here’s Looking at You, Kid!” The Visual in Jane Austen’s Juvenilia.” Persuasions On-Line, vol. 41, no. 1, 2020.
———. “Effusions Witty and Romantic: Teenage Writings of Jane Austen and Anna Maria Porter.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, 2022, pp. 138–48. doi:10.29173/jjs71.
Nachumi, Nora, and Stephanie Oppenheim. “Lady Susan and Love & Friendship: Laughter, Satire and the Impact of Form.” Austen After 200, edited by Kerry Sinanan, Annika Bautz, and Daniel Cook, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp. 209–24.
Nelles, William. “Austen’s Juvenilia and Sciences of the Mind.” Jane Austen and Sciences of the Mind, edited by Beth Lau, Routledge, 2017, pp. 14–36.
Peterson, Lesley. “Faints, Frenzies, and Fulminations: Young Jane Austen’s Mastery of the ‘Frantic, Incoherent Manner.’”Persuasions, vol. 42, no. 1, 2020, pp. 83–98.
———. “Young Jane Austen and the Circulation-Library Novel.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, 2021, pp. 94–125. doi:10.29173/jjs57.
Spratt, Danielle. “Austen’s Menippean Experiments: Paternalism and Empire in the Juvenilia and Mansfield Park.” British Women Satirists in the Long Eighteenth Century, edited by Amanda Hiner and Elizabeth Tasker Davis, Cambridge UP, 2022.
Sutherland, Kathryn. “‘A Wild Mind and a Disciplined Eye’: Jane Austen’s Art of Fiction.” Persuasions, vol. 42, no. 1, 2020, pp. 99–114.
Tandon, Bharat. “Austen’s Inharmonious Numbers.” Persuasions, vol. 42, no. 1, 2020, pp. 70–82.
Vander Heiden, Amy. Frivolity and Fainting in Love and Freindship and ‘The Mystery’: Reinterpreting Nonsense in Jane Austen’s Juvenilia. 2019. University of St. Thomas-Minnesota, MA thesis.
Veisz, Elizabeth. “Gloom, Ghosts, and Grottos: Nighttime Wanderings in the Juvenilia.” Persuasions, vol. 42, no. 1, 2020, pp. 59–69.
West, Carol L. “Murder, Mayhem, Mourning: The Comedy of Mortality in Austen’s Juvenilia.” Persuasions, vol. 42, no. 1, 2020, pp. 45–58.
White, Donna R. “Nonsense Elements in Jane Austen’s Juvenilia.” Persuasions On-Line, vol. 39, no. 1, 2018.
BACH, W.F.
Hall, Matthew J. “‘Es fällt kein Meister vonn Himmel’: W. F. Bach’s Juvenilia and the Methods of Creative Imitation.” Studies on Authorship in Historical Keyboard Music, edited by Andrew Woolley, 2023, pp. 147–66.
BURKE, EDMUND
Col, Norbert. “Impénitence et fidélité chez Edmund Burke.” Chrétiens et Sociétés, vol. 29, 2023, pp. 121–37.
BURNEY, FRANCES [and other Burney family members]
Burney, Sophia Elizabeth. “Works” and “Novels, Plays, and Poems.” Edited by Lorna J. Clark with Sarah Rose Smith, Juvenilia Press, 2016.
Clark, Lorna J. “Growing Up Burney and the Role of a Commonplace Book.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2020, pp. 3–20, doi:10.29173/jjs46.
———. “‘Stories for Miss Cecilia’: Inspiration and the Muses in the Burney Family Archive.” Frances Burney and the Arts, edited by Francesca Saggini, Palgrave MacMillan, 2022, pp. 111–23.
———. “Teaching ‘the young idea how to shoot’: The Juvenilia of the Burney Family.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 1, no.1, 2018, pp. 20–36. doi:10.29173/jjs127.
BYRON, LORD GEORGE GORDON
Gotthardt, Marc. “‘Words are Things’: Byron’s Fugitive Pieces.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 44–54. doi:10.29173/jjs84.
Steier, Michael. “Byron, Hunt, and the Juvenile Tradition.” Byron, Hunt, and the Politics of Literary Engagement, Routledge, 2020.
CHATTERTON, THOMAS
Sumner, Kate. “Chatterton’s Precious Things: Tokens of Professional Self-Promotion.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 2023, pp. 150–66. doi:10.29173/jjs95.
EDGEWORTH, MARIA
Twomey, Ryan. “For ‘Family and Intimate Visitors Only’: The Influence of Maria Edgeworth’s Juvenilia on the Production of her Adult Dramas.” Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature, vol. 55, no. 2, 2017, pp. 10–19.
———. “An Allusion in Maria Edgeworth’s The Double Disguise to the Historical Poisoning at the Castle Inn at Salt Hill.” Notes and Queries, vol. 64, no. 4, 2017, pp. 550–52. doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjx164.
HUNT, LEIGH
Steier, Michael. “Byron, Hunt, and the Juvenile Tradition.” Byron, Hunt, and the Politics of Literary Engagement, Routledge, 2020.
PORTER, ANNA MARIA
McMaster, Juliet. “Effusions Witty and Romantic: Teenage Writings of Jane Austen and Anna Maria Porter.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, 2022, pp. 138–48. doi:10.29173/jjs71.
Porter, Anna Maria. Artless Tales: or, Romantic Effusions of the Heart. Edited by Erika Cleveland, Devoney Looser, Claire McCarville, and A. J. Otero, Juvenilia Press, 2023. Porter’s second published collection of stories.
SEWARD, ANNA
Seward, Anna. Anna Seward’s Journal and Sermons. Edited by Teresa Barnard, Cambridge Scholars, 2017.
COLLECTED & COLLABORATIVE JUVENILE WORKS
Alexander, Christine, and Beverly Taylor. “Introduction to Special Issue on Literary Juvenilia, Material Imagination and ‘Things’.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2023, pp. 3–9. doi:10.29173/jjs103.
Conrad, Rachel. “Introduction to the Editor’s Column.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2021, pp. 3–8, doi:10.29173/jjs72.
Eddy, Matthew Daniel. “The Child Writer: Graphic Literacy and the Scottish Educational System, 1700–1820.” History of Education, vol. 45, no. 6, 2016, pp. 695–718.
Gleadle, Kathryn. “The Juvenile Enlightenment: British Culture and Youth During the French Revolution.” Past & Present, vol. 233, no. 1, 2016, pp. 143–84. doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtw043.
Hawkins, Ann R., Catherine S. Blackwell, and E. Leigh Bonds, editors. "Part II: Author Essays." The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers, pp. 69–552.
McMaster, Juliet. “Effusions Witty and Romantic: Teenage Writings of Jane Austen and Anna Maria Porter.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, 2022, pp. 138–48, doi:10.29173/jjs71.
1800
ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY
Van Tuyl, Jocelyn. “‘Somebody Else’s Universe’: Female Kunstler Narratives in Alcott’s Little Women and Rowell’s Fangirl.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 2, 2016, pp. 199–215.
BARRETT BROWNING, ELIZABETH
Isom, Rachael. “The Romanticism of Elizabeth Barrett’s Juvenile Poetics.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2019, pp. 28–45, doi:10.29173/jjs32.
Taylor, Beverly. “World Citizenship in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Juvenilia: Volcanoes, Hunger, and the Politics of the Larder.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2020, pp. 33–46. doi:10.29173/jjs49.
BRONTË FAMILY [Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, Anne]
Al Bassam, Mona. “‘[P]Lainer, If Possible, than Ever’: Plainness and Self-Representation in Charlotte Bronte’s ‘Henry Hastings’.” Bronte Studies: The Journal of the Bronte Society, vol. 47, no. 4, 2022, pp. 249–60.
Alexander, Christine. “In Search of the Authorial Self: Branwell Brontë’s Microcosmic World.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 2018, pp. 3–19. doi:10.29173/jjs126.
Brontë, Branwell. The Pirate. Edited by Christine Alexander, with Joetta Harty and Benjamin Drexler, Juvenilia Press, 2018.
Brontë, Emily, and Anne Brontë. The Diary Paper of Emily and Anne Brontë. Edited by Christine Alexander, with Mandy Swann, Juvenilia Press, 2019.
Butcher, Emma. The Brontës and War: Fantasy and Conflict in Charlotte and Branwell Brontë’s Youthful Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Friar, Nicola. “Autobiography, Wish-Fulfilment, and Juvenilia: The ‘Fractured Self’ in Charlotte Brontë’s Paracosmic Counterworld.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, 2019, pp. 65–76. doi:10.29173/jjs21.
Gao, Timothy. “Authorship, Omnipotence, and Charlotte Brontë.” Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Fictional Experience, Cambridge UP, 2021, pp. 35–69.
Jamison, Anne. “Look Back in Angria (The Brontë Family Fandom).” Humanities, vol. 114, no. 11, 2002. doi:10.3390/h11050114.
Jolly, Roslyn. “Chronotopes of Romance and Realism: The Lover’s Reunion in Anne Brontë’s ‘Alexander and Zenobia’ and Agnes Grey.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2023, pp. 70–79. doi:10.29173/jjs96.
McDonagh, Josephine. “Transported! Edward Gibbon Wakefield and Charlotte Brontë Imagine a Colony.” Literature in a Time of Migration: British Fiction and the Movement of People, 1815–1876, Oxford UP, 2021, pp. 112–49. (See also: “Introduction”)
Morland, Ayla. “Authorships of Resistance: Brontë Juvenilia and Riot Grrrl Zines.” Girlhood Studies, vol. 16, no. 2, 2023, pp. 49–65.
Nyborg, Erin. “Hero-Worship in Charlotte and Branwell Brontë’s Glass Town and Angrian Collaboration, 1829–1836.” The Brontës and Masculinity. 2016. University of Oxford, PhD dissertation, pp. 16–46.
Pickett, Danielle J. Genii of the Moors: Exploring the Imaginary and Imaginative Spaces in the Brontë’s Juvenilia’s Geographical Fantasy Worlds of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal, and Its Domestic Insurgence in Jane Eyre. 2017. University of Chester, PhD dissertation.
Taylor, Beverly. “Becoming Acton Bell.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2023, pp. 55–70. doi:10.29173/jjs87.
Willis, Louise. “The ‘Unseen Land of Thought’: Materialising Imagination and Creativity in the Brontë’s Miniature Books.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 2023, pp. 166–78. doi:10.29173/jjs85.
Young, Julie Elizabeth. The Presence of the Shelleys in the Brontës’ Juvenilia. 2019. University of Nottingham, PhD thesis.
———. “The Textual Presence of Mary Shelley’s The Last Man in the Juvenilia of the Brontë Siblings.” Literary Imagination, vol. 25, no. 2, 2023, pp. 113–29.
BRUCE, MARY GRANT
Bruce, Mary Grant. The Early Tales. Edited by Pamela Nutt with students from Presbyterian Ladies’ College Sydney, Juvenilia Press, 2011.
ELIOT, GEORGE
Fulmer, Constance M. “Development of George Eliot’s Moral Aesthetic.” George Eliot’s Moral Aesthetic: Compelling Contradictions, Routledge, 2019, pp. 5–18.
FLEMING, MARJORY
Fleming, Marjory. The Journals and Poems of Marjory Fleming. Edited by Leslie Robertson and Juliet McMaster, et. al., Juvenilia Press, 2018.
GOSSE, EDMUND
Gosse, Edmund. Tristam Jones, Edited by Kathy Reese and Christine Alexander, Juvenilia Press, 2022.
Reese, Kathy. “Edmund Gosse’s ‘Tristram Jones’ (c. 1872), and the Legacy of the Maternal Portrait.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2023, pp. 95–105. doi:10.29173/jjs90.
HEMANS, FELICIA
Hemans, Felicia. Selected Early Poems, edited by Christine Alexander, Pamela Nutt, et. al., Juvenilia Press, 2021.
JEFFERIES, RICHARD
Merchant, Peter. “‘What one sees another sees’: Synchronicity in the Juvenilia of Anna Kingsford and Richard Jefferies.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, 2019, pp. 102–117. doi:10.29173/jjs38.
Welshman, Rebecca. “‘The Peripatetic Philosopher’: Unlocking the Trauma of Richard Jefferies.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2021, pp. 98–117. doi:10.29173/jjs59.
JONES, ERNEST
Breton, Rob. “The Uses of Juvenilia: Ernest Jones’s Effusions.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2019, pp. 14–27. doi:10.29173/jjs20.
KINGSFORD, ANNA
Merchant, Peter. “‘What one sees another sees’: Synchronicity in the Juvenilia of Anna Kingsford and Richard Jefferies.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, 2019, pp. 102–117. doi:10.29173/jjs38.
MARX, KARL
Cowling, Mark. “Strategies of Continuity and Discontinuity in the Interpretation of Marx’s Work: The Case for Discontinuity.” Capital & Class, 2023.
RENTOUL, ANNIE AND IDA
Rentoul, Annie and Ida Rentoul. Mollie’s Bunyip and Other Tales. Edited by Pamela Nutt, et. al., Juvenilia Press, 2018.
REYMONT, WLADYSLAW
Samborska-Kukuć, Dorota. “Młodzieńcze Wiersze Miłosne Reymonta i Ich Adresatka.” Poznańskie studia polonistyczne. Seria literacka, vo. 44, 2023, pp. 339–55.
ROSETTI FAMILY [Christina, Dante Gabriel]
Richardson, Ann-Marie. Weaponised Imagination: Sibling Collaboration and Rivalries in the Brontë and Rossetti Families. 2018. University of Liverpool, PhD dissertation.
RUSKIN, JOHN
Hanson, David C. “Materiality in John Ruskin’s Early Letters and Dialogues.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2023, pp. 10–43. doi:10.29173/jjs94.
———. “Ruskin in the 1830s: Emerging Authorship and the Print Culture of Travel.” Continental Tourism, Travel Writing, and the Consumption of Culture, 1814–1900, edited by Benjamin Colbert and Lucy Morrison, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 119–76.
Ruskin, John. John Ruskin’s Continental Tour 1835: The Written Record and Drawings. Edited by Keith Hanley and Caroline S. Hull, Legenda, 2016.
TOLSTOY, LEO
Tolstoy, Leo. “Part 1: Tolstoy’s Juvenilia (1835–50).” Tolstoy As Philosopher: Essential Short Writings (1835–1910): An Anthology. Edited, translated, and introduced by and Inessa Medzhibovskaya, Academic Studies Press, 2022.
WHEATLEY, PHILLIS
Hodgson, Lucia. “Trauma in Phillis Wheatley’s Juvenilia.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2021, pp. 9–16. doi:10.29173/jjs64.
WILLIAMS, NELLIE
Danger, Sara. “Making News: A Girl, Her Printing Press, and the Civil War.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, 2021, pp. 65–93. doi:10.29173/jjs63.
YEATS, W.B.
Yeats, W.B. The Poems of W.B. Yeats, Volume One, 1882–1889. Edited by Peter Mcdonald, Routledge, 2021.
COLLECTED & COLLABORATIVE JUVENILE WORKS
Alexander, Christine, and Beverly Taylor. “Introduction to Special Issue on Literary Juvenilia, Material Imagination and ‘Things’.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2023, pp. 3–9. doi:10.29173/jjs103.
Beauvais, Clémentine. “Is There a Text in This Child? Childness and the Child–Authored Text.” Children’s Literature in Education, no. 50, 2019, pp. 60–75.
Butcher, Emma. “War and the Child’s Gaze in Revolutionary and Napoleonic Literature and Culture.” Critical Military Studies, vol. 9, no. 2, 2023, pp. 157–74.
Conrad, Rachel. “Introduction to the Editor’s Column.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2021, pp. 3–8. doi:10.29173/jjs72.
Crain, Patricia. “Children in the Margins.” Reading Children: Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America. U of Pennsylvania P, 2016, pp. 109–43.
Danger, Sara R. “Child Journalists, the Civil War, and the Intersectional Work of Reporting Grief.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2021, pp. 17–24. doi:10.29173/jjs62.
Gao, Timothy. Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Fictional Experience, Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Langbauer, Laurie. “Young England: Part Two.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2020, pp. 21–32. doi:10.29173/jjs53.
———. “Young England: Part One.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, 2019, pp. 77–101. doi:10.29173/jjs33.
Merchant, Peter. “‘What one sees another sees’: Synchronicity in the Juvenilia of Anna Kingsford and Richard Jefferies.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, 2019, pp. 102–117. doi:10.29173/jjs38.
Moruzi, Kristine, Nell Musgrove, and Carla Pascoe Leahy. Children’s Voices from the Past: New Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Register, Woody. “Good and Everlasting Friends: Letter-Writing and Friendship in a ‘Boy-Saving’ Reform Endeavor in Progressive-Era America, 1896–1906.” The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, vol. 10, no. 3, 2017, pp. 380–401.
Richardson, Ann-Marie. Weaponised Imagination: Sibling Collaboration and Rivalries in the Brontë and Rossetti Families. 2018. University of Liverpool, PhD dissertation.
Rouleau, Brian. “How the West Was Fun.” Empire’s Nursery: Children’s Literature and the Origins of the American Century. New York UP, 2021, pp. 21–54.
Smith, Victoria Ford. Between Generations: Collaborative Authorship in the Golden Age of Children's Literature. University Press of Missssippi, 2017.
1900
ACHEBE, CHINUA
Ochiagha, Terri. Achebe and Friends at Umuahia: The Making of a Literary Elite. Boydell and Brewer, 2015.
ALLEN, DAPHNE
Smith, Victoria F. “Exhibiting Children: The Young Artist as Construct and Creator.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 2018, pp. 62–81. doi:10.29173/jjs101.
ALLINGHAM, MARGERY
Simeone, Jasmine. “Margery Allingham (1904–1966), 1928: The White Cottage Mystery Serialised in the Daily Express Newspaper.” 100 British Crime Writers, edited by Esme Miskimmin, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 139–46.
ATWOOD, MARGARET
Atwood, Margaret. Early Writings. Edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Donna Couto, Juvenilia Press, 2020.
AUDEN, W.H.
Auden, W. H. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume I: 1927–1939. Edited by Edward Mendelson. Princeton University Press, 2022.
Garrington, Abbie. “Early Auden.” Oxford Handbook of Modernisms: Transitional Writers Supplement, edited by David Trotter, Oxford UP, 2016. doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935338.013.91.
Mendelson, Edward. Early Auden, Later Auden: A Critical Biography. Princeton UP, 2017.
Pividori, Cristina. “Silence, Guilt and Insidious Trauma in Auden’s Early Poems.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2021, pp. 74–97. doi:10.29173/jjs66.
Smith, Hannah Elizabeth. ‘The Bleak Philosophy of Northern Ridges’: Examining the Early Landscapes of WH Auden, 1922–1928. 2018. Queen Mary University London, PhD dissertation.
BIANCO, PAMELA
Smith, Victoria F. “Exhibiting Children: The Young Artist as Construct and Creator.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 2018, pp. 62–81. doi:10.29173/jjs101.
BOSMAN, HERMAN CHARLES
Leff, Carol. “Herman Charles Bosman: A Man of Profound Contradictions.” English in Africa, vol. 43, no. 1, 2016, pp. 109–29.
BOWEN, ELEANOR
Bowen, Eleanor. “Drawing and Longing: Reading the Relics of Practice.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2019, pp. 3–13. doi:10.29173/jjs34.
BRITTEN, BENJAMIN
Leccia, Marinu. “Danger or Shelter? Lullabies in the Music of Benjamin Britten.” Textes & Contextes, vol. 18, no. 1, 2023. doi:10.58335/textesetcontextes.4183.
BROWN, PAMELA
McMaster, Juliet. “Pamela Brown’s The Swish of the Curtain: A Programme for Life?” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 2018, pp. 48–61. doi:10.29173/jjs109.
COPE, JOAN PENELOPE
Johnson, Daisy. “Present and Yet Absent, Bodied and Yet Bodiless: The Paradoxical Dyads of Bramshill, Being the Memoirs of Joan Penelope Cope.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 2023, pp. 136–49. doi:10.29173/jjs104.
COWARD, NOËL
Coward, Noël. “Early Stages.” Noël Coward on (and in) Theatre, edited and with commentary by Barry Day. Alfred A. Knopf, 2021, pp. 5–32.
DARK, ELEANOR
Cooper, Melinda J. Middlebrow Modernism: Eleanor Dark’s Interwar Fiction. Sydney UP, 2022.
DIAMOND, DAVID LEO
Ton, William John. The Post-Tonal Evolution of David Diamond: A Theoretic-Analytical Perspective. 2023. University of South Carolina, PhD dissertation.
DICK, PHILIP K
Mitchell, Paul. “Science Fiction Re-Visioned: Posthuman Gothic in Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams.” Atlantis, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 112–29.
DUNBAR NELSON, ALICE
Adams, Katherine, et. al. “Recovering Alice Dunbar-Nelson for the Twenty-First Century: An Introduction.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, vol. 33, no. 2, 2016, pp. 213–53. doi.org/10.5250/legacy.33.2.0213.
ELIOT, T.S.
Stayer, Jayme. Becoming T.S. Eliot: The Rhetoric of Voice and Audience in “Inventions of the March Hare.” Johns Hopkins UP, 2021.
FAULKNER, WILLIAM
Faulkner, William. Ole Miss Juvenilia. Edited by Janet B. Kopito, Dover Publications, 2018.
HUDSON, VIRGINIA CARY
Hudson, Virginia Cary. O Ye Jigs and Juleps. Edited by Jeffrey Bibbee, et. al., Juvenilia Press, 2017.
HUSSERL, EDMUND
Varga, Peter Andras. “Husserl’s Early Period: Juvenilia and the Logical Investigations.” The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenology, edited by Dan Zahavi, Oxford UP, 2018, pp. 107–34.
JANSSON, TOVE
O’Neill, Ant. “Moominvalley Fossils: Translating the Early Comics of Tove Jansson.” Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature, vol. 55, no. 2, 2017, pp. 46–54.
JOYCE, JAMES
Davison, Sarah. “A ‘Bawd of Parodies’: James Joyce’s Practices as a Parodist from His Early Writings to Ulysses.” Modernist Parody: Imitation, Origination, and Experimentation in Early Twentieth-Century Literature, Oxford UP, 2023, pp. 190–231.
LEWIS, C.S.
Hunt, Sylvia. “The Political Worlds of Boxen and Narnia: Small Bodies in Big Spaces.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 2018, pp. 37–47. doi:10.29173/jjs104.
MANSFIELD, KATHERINE
Kimber, Gerri, and W. Todd Martin. Katherine Mansfield and Children. Edinburgh UP, 2021.
Mansfield, Katherine. The Collected Poems of Katherine Mansfield. Edited by Gerri Kimber and Clarie Davison, Edinburgh UP, 2016.
Mourant, Chris. “The New Age: Gender, Nation and Empire.” Katherine Mansfield and Periodical Culture, Edinburgh UP, 2019, pp. 33–108.
MCMASTER, JULIET
McMaster, Juliet. “From Juvenilia to Senilia: A Personal Case.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, 2021, pp. 55–64. doi:10.29173/jjs48.
MOORE, MARIANNE
Moore, Marianne. New Collected Poems. Edited by Heather Cass White, Farrar Straus, and Giroux, 2017.
NIETZSCHE, FRIEDRICH
Blue, Daniel. The Making of Friedrich Nietzsche: The Quest for Identity, 1844-1869. Cambridge UP, 2016.
Martinson, Steven D. Nietzsche’s Early Literary Writings and The Birth of Tragedy. Boydell & Brewer, 2022.
PICASSO, PABLO
Castro, X. Antón. “Journalism, Caricature and Satirical Drawings in Early Picasso (1891-1895): The Awakening of Pablo Ruiz’s Critical Consciousness.” Arts, vol. 6, no. 1, 2017, pp. 1–19. doi.org/10.3390/arts6010002.
PLATH, SYLVIA
Clark, Heather. “The Voice Within: Sylvia Plath’s Juvenilia, 1947–1950.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 46, no. 1, 2022, pp. 85–103.
Tamás, Dorka. “Sylvia Plath’s Reimagination of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales in Postwar American Culture.” Feminist Modernist Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2022, pp. 36–53.
POUND, EZRA
Davison, Sarah. “Pasticherie: Ezra Pound’s Apprenticeship from His College Verses to Canzoni.” Modernist Parody: Imitation, Origination, and Experimentation in Early Twentieth-Century Literature, Oxford UP, 2023, pp. 43–77.
PROKOFIEV, SERGEI
Guillaumier, Christina. “A Genealogy of Prokofiev’s Musical Gestures from the Juvenilia to the Later Piano Works.” Rethinking Prokofiev, edited by Rita McAllister and Christina Guillaumier, Oxford UP, 2020, pp. 299–316.
PYNCHON, THOMAS
Ketzan, Erik. “Pynchon’s Profanity, Queried and Coded.” Thomas Pynchon and The Digital Humanities: Computational Approaches to Style, 2021.
SCHMIDT, ARNO
Flemming, Günther. Arno Schmidt Juvenilia: Ein Cicerone in acht Studien. München Edition Text + kritik, 2022.
THOMAS, DYLAN
Goody, John. Discovering Dylan Thomas: A Companion to the Collected Poems and Notebook Poems. U of Wales P, 2017.
WARHOL, ANDY
Grudin, Anthony E. Like a Little Dog: Andy Warhol’s Queer Ecologies, edited by Anthony E. Grudin. U of California P, 2022.
WELLS, H.G.
Danta, Christopher. “‘I don’t want to put my toys away’: H.G. Wells, Gameplaying and the Narrative Floor.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2023, pp. 106–21. doi:10.29173/jjs88.
WHITE, E.B.
McMaster, Juliet. “White’s Wilbur and Whiteley’s Peter Paul Rubens.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2019, pp. 46–54. doi:10.29173/jjs23.
WHITELEY, OPAL
Davis, Alfin. “Post Humanistic Elements in Child Writers: A Brief Analysis of Two Child Writers.” Language in India, vol. 21, no. 3, 2021, pp. 37–44.
McMaster, Juliet. “White’s Wilbur and Whiteley’s Peter Paul Rubens.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2019, pp. 46–54. doi:10.29173/jjs23.
WOOLF, VIRGINIA
Jones, Clara. Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist. Edinburgh UP, 2015.
COLLECTED & COLLABORATIVE JUVENILE WORKS
Alexander, Christine, and Beverly Taylor. “Introduction to Special Issue on Literary Juvenilia, Material Imagination and ‘Things’.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2023, pp. 3–9. doi:10.29173/jjs103.
Beauvais, Clémentine. “Is There a Text in this Child? Childness and the Child-Authored Text.” Children’s Literature in Education,no. 50, 2019, pp. 60–75.
Berghel, Susan Eckelmann. “‘What My Generation Makes of America’: American Youth Citizenship, Civil Rights Allies, and 1960s Black Freedom Struggle.” The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, vol. 10, no. 3, 2017, pp. 422–40.
Conrad, Rachel. “Introduction to the Editor’s Column.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2021, pp. 3–8. doi:10.29173/jjs72.
Elliott, Cara A. “‘We Should Live Like One World’: White Children Write About Race and Brotherhood in Letters to Harry S. Truman.” The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, vol. 10, no. 3, 2017, pp. 402–21.
Fish, Amanda Noble. Child Writers’ Collaborations Across Age and Race in Circa 1970 America. 2019. Harvard University, PhD dissertation.
Fish, Amy. Writing Themselves into the Movement: Child Authors of the Black Arts Era. 2024. University of Massachusetts Press, 2024.
Johnson, Louise. How to Be Girl: How the Historic Juvenilia and Contemporary Creative Writing of Young Girls can Facilitate Discussions About What it Means to be Girl. 2022, University of York, Thesis.
Lieffers, Caroline. “Child Writing and the Traumatised Body.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2021, pp. 25–31. doi:10.29173/jjs56.
———. “‘I am making myself remember that awful time’: Juvenilia, Hiroshima, and the Politics of Peace.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2021, pp. 51–73. doi:10.29173/jjs51.
McMaster, Juliet. “White’s Wilbur and Whiteley’s Peter Paul Rubens.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2019, pp. 46–54, doi:10.29173/jjs23.
Moruzi, Kristine, Nell Musgrove, and Carla Pascoe Leahy. Children’s Voices from the Past: New Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Ochiagha, Terri. Achebe and Friends at Umuahia: The Making of a Literary Elite. Boydell and Brewer, 2015.
Olson, Sherry and Peter Holland. “Conversation in Print among Children and Adolescents in the South Island of New Zealand, 1886–1909.” The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, vol. 12, no. 2, 2019, pp. 219–40.
Pulkkinen, Veijo. “Manuscripts Imitating Printed Books: Bibliographic Codes and Paritexts in Finnish Juvenalia from the Turn of the 20th Century.” Image and Narrative, vol. 20, no. 1, 2019, pp. 23–42.
Smith, Victoria F. “Exhibiting Children: The Young Artist as Construct and Creator.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 2018, pp. 62–81. doi:10.29173/jjs101.
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AL RABEEAH, ABU BAKR
Conrad, Rachel, and Lesley Peterson. “Collaboration and Connection: Intergenerational Authorship in Al Rabeeah and Yeung’s Homes: A Refugee Story.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2021, pp. 32–40. doi:10.29173/jjs74.
ARNI, SAMHITA
Hand, Felicity. “Samhita Arni’s Daring Debut: The Mahabharata Revisited in the Twenty-First Century.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, 2022, pp. 121–37. doi:10.29173/jjs67.
ASHBERY, JOHN
Roffman, Karin. The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery’s Early Life. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2017.
COETZEE, J.M.
Van Schalkwyk, Simon. “Archival Excavations: JM Coetzee’s Youth (2002).” English Studies in Africa, vol. 62, no. 2, 2019, pp. 12–31.
DAVIES, PETER MAXWELL
Jones, Nicholas. “Biography, Stylistic Development, Autobiography.” The Music of Peter Maxwell Davies, edited by Nicholas Jones and Richard McGregor, Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp. 7–50.
HUDSON, VIRGINIA CARY
Hudson, Virginia Cary. O Ye Jigs and Juleps. Edited by Jeffrey Bibbee, Lesley Peterson, and Leigh Thompson Stanfield, et. al., Juvenilia Press, 2017.
LILY
Jean-Denis, Alisha, and Korina M. Jocson. “‘Because I won’t ever forget’: Towards Livingness in Youth Poetry.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2021, pp. 41–50. doi:10.29173/jjs75.
PRICE, ELIZABETH
O’Kane, Paul. “Elizabeth Price and the Popular Past, Amateurism, Fetish, and Juvenilia—Part 1.” History in Contemporary Art and Culture, 2022, pp 167–74.
———.“Elizabeth Price and the Popular Past, Amateurism, Fetish, and Juvenilia—Part 2.” History in Contemporary Art and Culture, 2022, pp 175–83.
SONDHEIM, STEPHEN
McHugh, Dominic. “Fragments of Fairyland: Sondheim’s Abandoned Adaptation of Mary Poppins.” Sondheim in Our Time and His, edited by W. Anthony Sheppard, Oxford UP, 2022, pp. 45–65.
Salsini, Paul. Sondheim and Me: Revealing a Musical Genius. Bancroft Press, 2022.
WILLIAMSON, DAVID
Williamson, David. Early Writings. Edited by Pamela Nutt, et. al., Juvenilia Press, 2023.
COLLECTED & COLLABORATIVE JUVENILE WORKS
Alexander, Christine, and Beverly Taylor. “Introduction to Special Issue on Literary Juvenilia, Material Imagination and ‘Things’.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2023, pp. 3–9. doi:10.29173/jjs103.
Conrad, Rachel. “Children’s Rights to Write: Young People’s Participation as Producers of Children’s Literature.” Handbook of Children’s Rights: Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Martin D. Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali, and Michael Freeman, Routledge, 2016.
———. “‘My sole desire is to move someone through poetry, and allow for my voice to be heard’: Young Poets and Children’s Rights.” The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 40, no. 2, 2016, pp. 196–214.
———. Time for Childhoods: Young Poets and the Questions of Agency, U of Massachusetts P, 2020.
———. “Introduction to the Editor’s Column.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2021, pp. 3–8. doi:10.29173/jjs72.
——— and Lesley Peterson. “Collaboration and Connection: Intergenerational Authorship in Al Rabeeah and Yeung’s Homes: A Refugee Story.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2021, pp. 32–40. doi:10.29173/jjs74.
Cumming, Peter. “Introduction to ‘‘Another Children’s Literature’: Writing by Children and Youth’ Taking Writing by Children and Youth Seriously.” Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature, vol. 55, no. 2, 2017. doi:10.1353/bkb.2017.0018.
Davis, Alfin. “Post Humanistic Elements in Child Writers: A Brief Analysis of Two Child Writers.” Language in India, vol. 21, no. 3, 2021, pp. 37–44.
Filipović, Zlata, and Melanie Challenger, editors. Stolen Voices: Young People’s War Diaries, from World War I to Iraq. Penguin, 2006.
Jean-Denis, Alisha, and Korina M. Jocson. “‘Because I won’t ever forget’: Towards Livingness in Youth Poetry.” Journal of Juvenilia Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2021, pp. 41–50. doi:10.29173/jjs75.
Liyanti, Lisda. “Narrative Strategies and Interpretations of Emotions in the Works of Post-Islamic Generation Child Writers: An Analysis of Three Kecil Kecil Punya Karya Series.” Pertanika Social Sciences & Humanities, vol. 27, no. 4, 2019, pp. 2543–54.
Marshall, Elizabeth and Theresa Rogers. “Youth, Poetry, and Zines: Rewriting the Streets as Home.” Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature, vol. 55, no. 2, 2017, pp. 28–36.
Slater, Amanda. “Adult Influences in the Construction of Youth War Diaries.” Undergraduate Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 7, University of Nebraska-Kearney, 2016.
Todorova, Marija. “Children’s Voices from War Zones: Muted by Adult Mediation.” Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature, vol. 55, no. 2, 2017.
Tullos, Jennifer Coletta. “‘We Gon’ Fight, Emmet’: Performing Childhood and Innocence as Resistance in Black Youth Slam Poetry.” The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 43, no. 2, 2019, pp. 261–81.
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Digital Scholarship and Archives
“Home.” Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives, 2022. https://www.thedaln.org/#/home.
Wisnicki, Adrian S. “Recovered Texts.” One More Voice, solidarity edition, 2022, https://onemorevoice.org/texts.html.
Journal Special Issues
“Literary Juvenilia, Material Imagination and ‘Things’.” Special Issue of the Journal of Juvenilia Studies, edited by Christine Anne Alexander and Beverly Taylor, vol. 5, no. 1, 2023. https://journalofjuveniliastudies.com/index.php/jjs/issue/view/8.
“Juvenilia, Trauma and Intersectionality.” Special Issue of the Journal of Juvenilia Studies, edited by Rachel Conrad, vol. 4, no. 1, 2021. https://journalofjuveniliastudies.com/index.php/jjs/issue/view/6.
“A Virtual Event: Jane Austen’s Juvenilia: Reason, Romanticism, and Revolution.” Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, edited by Susan Allen Ford, vol. 41, no. 1, and vol. 42, no. 1, 2020.
“‘Another Children’s Literature’: Writing by Children and Youth.” Special Issue of Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature, vol. 55, no. 2, 2017.
Dissertations and Theses
Fish, Amanda Noble. Child Writers’ Collaborations across Age and Race in Circa 1970 America. 2019. Harvard University, PhD dissertation.
Johnson, Louise. How to be Girl: How the Historic Juvenilia and Contemporary Creative Writing of Young Girls can Facilitate Discussions About What it Means to be Girl. 2022, University of York, Thesis.
Nyborg, Erin. “Hero-Worship in Charlotte and Branwell Brontë’s Glass Town and Angrian Collaboration, 1829–1836.” The Brontës and Masculinity. 2016. University of Oxford, PhD dissertation, pp. 16–46.
Pickett, Danielle J. Genii of the Moors: Exploring the Imaginary and Imaginative Spaces in the Brontë’s Juvenilia’s Geographical Fantasy Worlds of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal, and Its Domestic Insurgence in Jane Eyre. 2017. University of Chester, PhD dissertation.
Richardson, Ann-Marie. Weaponised Imagination: Sibling Collaboration and Rivalries in the Brontë and Rossetti Families. 2018. University of Liverpool, PhD dissertation.
Slater, Amanda. “Adult Influences in the Construction of Youth War Diaries.” Undergraduate Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 7, University of Nebraska-Kearney, 2016.
Smith, Hannah Elizabeth. “The Bleak Philosophy of Northern Ridges”: Examining the Early Landscapes of WH Auden, 1922–1928. 2018. Queen Mary University London, PhD dissertation.
Ton, William John. The Post-Tonal Evolution of David Diamond: A Theoretic-Analytical Perspective. 2023. University of South Carolina, PhD dissertation.
Vander Heiden, Amy. Frivolity and Fainting in Love and Freindship and “The Mystery”: Reinterpreting Nonsense in Jane Austen’s Juvenilia. 2019. University of St. Thomas-Minnesota, MA thesis.
Young, J. E. The Presence of the Shelleys in the Brontës’ Juvenilia. 2019. University of Nottingham, PhD thesis.
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