Laura Colombino - Publications#

Current projects:

‘Later Engagements with Dickens’s Life’, in David Paroissien (ed.). A Companion to Charles Dickens, Second Edition. Malden and Oxford: Wiley/Blackwell. Chapter approved by the editor.

Authored books:

Spatial Politics in Contemporary London Literature: Writing Architecture and the Body, New York and London: Routledge, 2013.

Ford Madox Ford: Vision, Visuality and Writing, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2008. (Revised and extended version of the book in Italian: Ford Madox Ford: Visione/visualità e scrittura).

Ford Madox Ford: Visione/visualità e scrittura, Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2003.

Edited books:

With Sara Haslam and Seamus O’Malley, The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford, New York and London: Routledge, 2019.

With Max Saunders, The Edwardian Ford Madox Ford, International Ford Madox Ford Studies 12, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2013.

Ford Madox Ford and Visual Culture. International Ford Madox Ford Studies 8. Rodopi: Amsterdam & New York, 2009.

Essays in art catalogues:

‘“A Kind of Crashness”: Lee Bul, J.G. Ballard and the Sublime’, in Stephanie Rosenthal (ed.), Lee Bul, catalogue of the exhibition Lee Bul: Crashing (London: Hayward Gallery, 30 May–19 Aug 2018), pp. 141–43, 171.

‘“Eine Art Crashness”: Lee Bul, J.G. Ballard und das Erhabene”’, Lee Bul. Ausst. Kat. Hayward Gallery, London 2018 | Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2019 | Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul 2019 Taschenbuch – 3. September 2018, pp. 141–43, 171.

Selected essays and articles:

‘Ishiguro and Love’, in Andrew Bennett (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023.

‘Consciousness and the nonhuman: the imaginary of the new brain sciences in Ian McEwan’s Nutshell and Machines Like Me’, Laura Colombino and Peter Childs (eds.). Narrating the (Non)Human: Ecologies, Consciousness and Myth. Textual Practice, Volume 36, Issue 3 (2022)

'Introduction: Narrating the (Non)Human: Ecologies, Consciousness and Myth', Textual Practice, Volume 36, Issue 3 (2022), co-authored with Peter Childs, in Laura Colombino and Peter Childs (eds.), Narrating the (Non)Human: Science, Ecologies, and Consciousness. Textual Practice, Volume 36, Issue 3 (2022)

‘Transmodern Mythopoesis in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant’, in Susana Onega e Jean-Michel Ganteau (eds.), Transcending the Postmodern: The Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm. New York and London: Routledge, 2020. Forthcoming.

‘Idealism, Farce and International Heterotopias: Aristocracy in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day’, in Ian Duncan, Stefania Michelucci and Luisa Villa (eds.), The British Aristocracy in Popular Culture. Essays on 200 Years of Representations, Jefferson: McFarland, 2020. Forthcoming.

'Motivi platonici in Non Lasciarmi di Kazuo Ishiguro', Nuova Corrente, 164 (2019).

‘“To Inhabit in Tranquility”: Landscape, Vision and Empathy in Ford Madox Ford’s No Enemy’, Le Simplegadi. XVI: 19 (2019).

‘Ford, Vision and Media’ in Sara Haslam, Laura Colombino and Seamus O’Malley (eds.), The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford, New York and London: Routledge, 2019, 396–412.

‘Ford and Urban Spaces’ in Sara Haslam, Laura Colombino and Seamus O’Malley (eds.), The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford. New York and London: Routledge, 2019, 195–211.

‘Caring, Dwelling, Being: The Phenonenology of Vulnerability in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go’, in Jean-Michel Ganteau and Susana Onega (eds.), The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction. A Paradoxical Quest. New York and London: Routledge, 2018, 203–222.

‘Iain Sinclair: Complexity, Imagination and the Re-Enchanted Margins of London Orbital’, in Nick Hubble and Philip Tew (eds.), London in Contemporary British Fiction: The City Beyond the City, London: Bloomsbury, 2016, 111–125.

‘The body, the city, the global: spaces of catastrophe in Ian McEwan's Saturday', Textual Practice, 31:4 (2017), 783–803.

‘Ford’s Literary Impressionism’, in Ashley Chantler and Rob Hawkes (eds.), An Introduction to Ford Madox Ford, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2015, 63–76.

‘Nature, Fascism and Social Satire: Aldous Huxley’s Interwar Italy’, in Luisa Villa (ed.), Modernism and the Mediterranean: Literature and Politics, 1900-1937, Roma: Aracne, 2014, 167–88.

‘The Imagination of Space: Ford Madox Ford and France’ in Andrew Radford and Victoria Reid (eds.), Franco-British Cultural Exchanges, 1880-1940: Channel Packets, London: Palgrave, 2012, 168–86.

‘The House As Skin: J.G. Ballard, Existentialism and Archigram’s Mini-Environments’, European Journal of English Studies, 2012, 16: 1, 21-31.

‘A Transcultural Humanist Quest: Robert Byron’s The Road to Oxiana’, in Massimo Bacigalupo and Luisa Villa (eds.), The Politics and Poetics of Displacement: Modernism off the Beaten Track, Udine: Campanotto, 2011, 73-86.

‘Introduction’, in Laura Colombino (ed.), Ford Madox Ford and Visual Culture, Rodopi: Amsterdam & New York, 2009, 17–26.

‘Ford, Matisse and The Book of The Dead: The (In)visible Objects of The Rash Act and Henry for Hugh’, in Laura Colombino (ed.), Ford Madox Ford and Visual Culture, Rodopi: Amsterdam & New York, 2009, 235–50.

‘Transcending the Human Scale: Ruins and Traumatised Cultural Memory in Texts on London by Michael Moorcock and Iain Sinclair’, Textus 21 (2007), 433–446.

‘The Ghostly Surfaces of the Past. A Comparison between Ford’s Fiction and A.S. Byatt’s The Virgin in the Garden’, in Paul Skinner (ed.), Ford Madox Ford: Literary Contacts, Rodopi: Amsterdam & New York, 2007, 237-248.

‘Negotiations with the System: J.G. Ballard and Geoff Ryman Writing London’s Architecture’, Textual Practice 20:4 (2006), 615–635.

‘Negotiating with Gauguin’s ‘Solar Myth’: Art, Economy and Ideology in Ford Madox Ford’s Provence’, in Caroline Patey, Giovanni Cianci and Francesca Cuojati (eds.), Anglo-American Modernity and the Mediterranean, Milano: Cisalpino, 2006, 51–64.

‘We are horribly sensitive: Thomas Hardy e la psicofisica del sublime’, Rivista di studi vittoriani, 18–19 (July 2004-January 2005), 121–50.

‘Photography and Other Simulacra in The Good Soldier’, in Vita Fortunati and Elena Lamberti (eds.), Ford Madox Ford and ‘The Republic of Letters’, Bologna: Clueb, 2002, 210–15.

‘Fra teorie burkiane e nostalgie romantiche: il sublime naturale in Thomas Hardy’, Quaderni del Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne 10 (1998), 167–200.

Reviews:

Felicia Bonaparte, The Poetics of Poesis: The Making of Nineteenth-Century English Fiction. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2015. Pp. xi + 322. Hardback. Dickens Quarterly, September 2018.

Pieter Vermeulen, Contemporary Literature and the End of the Novel: Creature, Affect, Form, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp. 182. Hardcover [ISBN 978-1-137-41452-6]]. Altre Modernità/Otras modernidades/Autres modernités/Other Modernities, 18 November 2017.

‘A Diston, la volgarità inglese’, Review of Martin Amis’ Lionel Asbo: Stato dell’Inghilterra, original edition 2012, Italian traslation by Federica Aceto, pp. 320, Einaudi Torino 2013, L’Indice dei libri del mese, February 2014, XXXI:2, p. 25

Encyclopedia Entries:

‘Parade's End’. The Literary Encyclopedia (online). First published 27 December 2018 (3032 words). https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=2926