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Melissa Raines

Dr Melissa Raines
BA, MA, PhD

Senior Lecturer in English Literature
English

Publications

Selected publications

  1. 'Is Zelda Dead Yet?': Disability, Mortality, and Narratives of Appropriation in Pet Sematary (forthcoming 2025) (Chapter - 2024)
  2. Uncanny Adaptations: Revisionary Narratives in Bryan Fuller’s<i>Hannibal</i> (Journal article - 2018)
  3. Romantic Timing and Realist Implications in Hardy and Trollope (Journal article - 2015)
  4. George Eliot's Grammar of Being (Book - 2011)
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2024

'Is Zelda Dead Yet?': Disability, Mortality, and Narratives of Appropriation in Pet Sematary (forthcoming 2025)

Raines, M. (n.d.). 'Is Zelda Dead Yet?': Disability, Mortality, and Narratives of Appropriation in Pet Sematary (forthcoming 2025). In M. Blouin (Ed.), Theorizing Stephen King. Amsterdam University Press.

Chapter

2023

Language

Raines, M. (2023). Language. In R. Nemesvari, & W. Baker (Eds.), Wilkie Collins in Context (pp. 230-237). Cambridge University Press.

Chapter

2018

2015

Romantic Timing and Realist Implications in Hardy and Trollope

Raines, M. (2015). Romantic Timing and Realist Implications in Hardy and Trollope. Essays in Criticism, 65(1), 53-74. doi:10.1093/escrit/cgu028

DOI
10.1093/escrit/cgu028
Journal article

2013

Language

Raines, M. A. (2013). Language. In M. Harris (Ed.), George Eliot in Context (pp. xxx). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Chapter

2012

Knowing Too Much: The Burden of Omniscience in 'The Lifted Veil'

Raines, M. A. (2012). Knowing Too Much: The Burden of Omniscience in 'The Lifted Veil'. The George Eliot Review, 43.

Journal article

William Makepeace Thackeray

Raines, M. A. (2012). William Makepeace Thackeray. In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Victorian Literature. [Internet (subscription only)]. Oxford University Press.

Other

2011

Anthony Trollope

Raines, M. A. (2011). Anthony Trollope. In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Victorian Literature. [Internet (subscription only)]. Oxford University Press.

Other

George Eliot's Grammar of Being

Raines, M. A. (2011). George Eliot's Grammar of Being. London: Anthem Press.

Book

2010

'"The utmost intricacies of the soul's pathways": The significance of syntax in George Eliot's Felix Holt'

Raines, M. A. (2010). '"The utmost intricacies of the soul's pathways": The significance of syntax in George Eliot's Felix Holt'. In D. L. Birch, & M. Llewellyn (Eds.), Conflict and Difference in Nineteenth-Century Literature (pp. 186-200). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Chapter

2009

'The Stream of Human Thought and Deed' in 'Mr Gilfil's Love-Story'

Raines, M. A. (2009). 'The Stream of Human Thought and Deed' in 'Mr Gilfil's Love-Story'. The George Eliot Review, Specia, 37-42.

Journal article

2008

2007

Awakening the 'Mere Pulsation of Desire' in Silas Marner

Raines, M. A. (2007). Awakening the 'Mere Pulsation of Desire' in Silas Marner. The George Eliot Review, 38, 24-30.

Journal article