Publications
2024
The Second Wife: Elizabeth Gaskell’s <i>Wives and Daughters</i> (1864–66) and Katharine Thomson’s <i>Widows and Widowers: A Romance of Real Life</i> (1842)
Readioff, C. (n.d.). The Second Wife: Elizabeth Gaskell’s <i>Wives and Daughters</i> (1864–66) and Katharine Thomson’s <i>Widows and Widowers: A Romance of Real Life</i> (1842). Notes and Queries. doi:10.1093/notesj/gjae070
Clubs
Readioff, C. (2024). Clubs. In Jonathan Swift in Context (pp. 216-223). Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108917254.034
Catching Nessie on Film / Siren of the Screen
Readioff, C. (2024). Catching Nessie on Film / Siren of the Screen. HISTORY TODAY, (May 2024). Retrieved from https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/catching-nessie-film
Review: Doctor Who – Rogue
Readioff, C. (2024). Review: Doctor Who – Rogue. Retrieved from https://www.bsecs.org.uk/criticks-reviews/36710/
The Tale of a Whale: A Digression upon Frontispieces in Jonathan Swift’s A Tale of a Tub (1704)
Readioff, C. (2024). The Tale of a Whale: A Digression upon Frontispieces in Jonathan Swift’s A Tale of a Tub (1704). Swift Studies, 39, 8-56.
2023
Epigraphs in the English Novel 1750-1850: Seducing the Reader
Readioff, C. (2023). Epigraphs in the English Novel 1750-1850: Seducing the Reader. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Jane Austen and the King of Skiffle
Readioff, C. (2023). Jane Austen and the King of Skiffle. HISTORY TODAY, (January 2023). Retrieved from https://www.historytoday.com/
“Matter on which to build some knowledge”: Pre-Chapter Epigraphs in Eighteenth-Century Didactic Fiction
Readioff, C. (2023). “Matter on which to build some knowledge”: Pre-Chapter Epigraphs in Eighteenth-Century Didactic Fiction. In Participation, Collaboration, Association, International Eighteenth-Century Studies/Etudes Internationales sur le dix-huitième siècle (pp. 137-154). Paris: Honoré Champion.
2022
A Paratextual Battle: Mottos, Meaning and Conflict in Printed Journals 1709–1712
Readioff, C. (2022). A Paratextual Battle: Mottos, Meaning and Conflict in Printed Journals 1709–1712. The Review of English Studies, 73(309), 302-320. doi:10.1093/res/hgab063
Eleanor Bird and Corrina Readioff on recording the landscape: Davy’s Irish notebooks
Readioff, C., & Bird, E. (2022). Eleanor Bird and Corrina Readioff on recording the landscape: Davy’s Irish notebooks. Retrieved from https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/
2021
Recent approaches to paratext studies in eighteenth‐century literature
Readioff, C. (2021). Recent approaches to paratext studies in eighteenth‐century literature. Literature Compass, 18(12). doi:10.1111/lic3.12650
"A good honest Junta”: Reconstructing the Scriblerus Club from the Verse Invitations to Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford
Readioff, C. (2021). "A good honest Junta”: Reconstructing the Scriblerus Club from the Verse Invitations to Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford. Swift Studies, 36, 45-67.
Corrina Readioff on pursuing ‘the love of Knowledge'
Readioff, C. (2021). Corrina Readioff on pursuing ‘the love of Knowledge'. Retrieved from https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/
2020
Paratext and Self‐Promotion in the <i>Memoirs of the First Forty‐Five Years of the Life of James Lackington, Bookseller</i> (1791)
Readioff, C. (2020). Paratext and Self‐Promotion in the <i>Memoirs of the First Forty‐Five Years of the Life of James Lackington, Bookseller</i> (1791). Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 43(2), 183-201. doi:10.1111/1754-0208.12669
Review: Doctor Who – The Haunting of the Villa Diodati
Readioff, C. (2020). Review: Doctor Who – The Haunting of the Villa Diodati. Retrieved from https://www.bsecs.org.uk/
2018
Pre-Chapter Epigraphs in the English Novel, 1750-1860
Readioff, C. J. (2018, September 17). Pre-Chapter Epigraphs in the English Novel, 1750-1860.
“[V]ery plain, and with little or no Ornament”: Coats, Allegory, and the Politics of Fashion in Jonathan Swift’s A Tale of a Tub (1704)
Readioff, C. (2018). “[V]ery plain, and with little or no Ornament”: Coats, Allegory, and the Politics of Fashion in Jonathan Swift’s A Tale of a Tub (1704). Swift Studies, 33, 18-32.
2017
Review: Doctor Who – Thin Ice
Readioff, C. (2017). Review: Doctor Who – Thin Ice. Retrieved from https://www.bsecs.org.uk/criticks-reviews/doctor-thin-ice/
2016
Book Review - Jakub Lipski and Jacek Mydla (eds), The Enchantress of Words, Sounds and Image: Anniversary Essays on Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823) (Academica Press, 2015)
Readioff, C. (n.d.). Book Review - Jakub Lipski and Jacek Mydla (eds), The Enchantress of Words, Sounds and Image: Anniversary Essays on Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823) (Academica Press, 2015). Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780–1840, 22(0), 141. doi:10.18573/j.2017.10163
Kate Rumbold, Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century Novel: Cultures of Quotation from Samuel Richardson to Jane Austen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)
Readioff, C. (2016). Kate Rumbold, Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century Novel: Cultures of Quotation from Samuel Richardson to Jane Austen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016). La Questione Romantica, 8(1-2), 161-162.
Review: Inside Versailles (BBC)
Readioff, C. (2016). Review: Inside Versailles (BBC). Retrieved from https://www.bsecs.org.uk/criticks-reviews/inside-versailles/
Review: The Real Versailles (BBC)
Readioff, C. (2016). Review: The Real Versailles (BBC). Retrieved from https://www.bsecs.org.uk/criticks-reviews/the-real-versailles/
Review: The Rivals (Liverpool Playhouse)
Readioff, C. (2016). Review: The Rivals (Liverpool Playhouse). Retrieved from https://www.bsecs.org.uk/criticks-reviews/the-rivals-2/
Review: War and Peace (BBC)
Readioff, C. (2016). Review: War and Peace (BBC). Retrieved from https://www.bsecs.org.uk/criticks-reviews/war-and-peace-bbc/