Bradley Irish

Books:

-  Shakespeare and Disgust: The History and Science of Early Modern Revulsion. London: The Arden Shakespeare, 2023.

-  Emotion in the Tudor Court: Literature, History, and Early Modern Feeling. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2018.

Edited Collections:

-  The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion, ed. Patrick Colm Hogan, Bradley J. Irish, and Lalita Pandit Hogan. New York: Routledge, 2022.

-  Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture, ed. Cora Fox, Bradley J. Irish, and Cassie M. Miura. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021.

Articles/Chapters:

-  “Jealousy in Early Modern England.” Studies in Philology, 2024. (Forthcoming)

- “Envy, Jealousy, and Emulation: The Poetics of Affective Rivalry in The Shepheardes Calender." Accepted by SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 2023. (Forthcoming)

 - “Close Reading: The Inveighing, Envying Martius in Coriolanus 3.3.94.” Shakespeare, 2023; published advance access: http://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2022.2150065

-  “Envy, Leanness, and Julius Caesar.” Early Theatre 25.2 (2022): 67-82.

-  “Envy, Beelzebub, and Paradise Lost.” Huntington Library Quarterly 85.2 (2022): 347-357.

-  “Racial Disgust in Early Modern England: The Case of Othello.” Shakespeare Quarterly 73.3-4 (2022): 67-82.

-  “Social Reception.” In The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion. Ed. Patrick Colm Hogan, Bradley J. Irish, and Lalita Pandit Hogan. New York: Routledge, 2022. 317-327.

-  “Literary Feelings: Understanding Emotions" (with Patrick Colm Hogan). In The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion. Ed. Patrick Colm Hogan, Bradley J. Irish, and Lalita Pandit Hogan. New York: Routledge, 2022. 1-11.

-  “Solidarity as Ritual in the Late Elizabethan Court.” In Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture. Ed. Cora Fox, Bradley J. Irish. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021. 121-135.

-  “Introduction" (with Cora Fox and Cassie Miura). In Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture. Ed. Cora Fox, Bradley J. Irish, and Cassie Miura. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021. 1-17. 

- “Envy in Early Modern England.” ELH 88.4 (2021): 845-878.

-  “A Strategic Compromise: Universality, Interdisciplinarity, and the Case for Modal Emotions in History of Emotion Research.” Emotions: History, Culture, Society 4.2 (2020): 231-251.

-  “The Varieties of Early Modern Envy and Jealousy: The Case of Obtrectation.” Modern Philology 117.1 (2019): 115-126.

-  “'Something After'? Hamlet and Dread.” In Hamlet and Emotions. Ed. Paul Megna, Bríd Phillips, and R.S.  White. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 229-249.

-  “Fulke Greville the Courtier: Courting the Ghosts of Sidney and Essex.” In The Measure of the Mind: Fulke Greville and the Culture of the English Renaissance. Ed. Russell J. Leo, Katrin Röder, and Freya Sierhuis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 210-226.

-  "Historicism and Universals." The Literary Universals Project. Ed. Patrick Colm Hogan. 2018. Online: https://literary-universals.uconn.edu/2016/09/20/literary-universals-and-historicism/

-  "Coriolanus and the Poetics of Disgust." Shakespeare Survey 69 (2016): 198-215.

-  "Friendship and Frustration: Counter-Affect in the Letters of Philip Sidney and Hubert Languet." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 57 (2015): 412-32.

-  "The Sidneys and Foreign Affairs, 1575-1578: An Unpublished Letter of Sir Henry Sidney." English Literary Renaissance 45 (2015): 90-119.

-  "The Literary Afterlife of the Essex Circle: Fulke Greville, Tacitus, and BL Additional MS 18638." Modern Philology 112 (2014): 271-285.

-  “The Rivalrous Emotions in Surrey's 'So Crewell Prison.’” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 53 (2014): 1-24.

-  “Writing Woodstock: The Prehistory of Richard II and Shakespeare’s Dramatic Method.” Renaissance Drama 41 (2013): 131-149.

-  "‘Not cardinal but king’: Thomas Wolsey and the Henrician Diplomatic Imagination." In Authority and Diplomacy from Dante to Shakespeare. Ed. William T. Rossiter and Jason Powell. Burlington, VT: Ashgate: 2013. 85-99.

-  "Libels and the Essex Rising." Notes and Queries 59.1 (2012): 87-89.

-  “Gender and Politics in the Henrician Court: The Douglas-Howard Lyrics in the Devonshire Manuscript (BL Add 17492).” Renaissance Quarterly 64.1 (2011): 79-114.

-  “Henry Howard, earl of Surrey." In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature. Ed. Garrett Sullivan and Alan Stewart. 3 vols. Oxford: Blackwell, 2011. 2.511-516.

-  “Vengeance, Variously: Revenge Before Kyd in Early English Drama." Early Theatre 12.2 (2009): 117-134.

-  “The Secret Chamber and Other Suspect Places: Materiality, Space, and the Fall of Catherine Howard." Early Modern Women 4 (2009): 169-175.

Public-Facing Writing:

- "How to Make Room for Neurodivergent Professors.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 2, 2023. https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-to-make-room-for neurodivergent-professors

- “Corpse Medicine.”  The Collation (Folger Shakespeare Library), January 17, 2023.   https://collation.folger.edu/2023/01/corpse-medicine

- “Why Are So Many People Delighted by Disgusting Things?” The Conversation, October 21, 2022.  https://theconversation.com/why-are-so-many-people-delighted-by-disgusting-things-191053