John Lennard - Works

Works

  • But I Digress: The Exploitation of Parentheses in English Printed Verse (Clarendon Press, 1991) ISBN 0-19-811247-5
  • The Poetry Handbook (Oxford University Press, 1996). Second edition, 2005. ISBN 0-19-926538-0
  • The Drama Handbook (Oxford University Press, 2002). With Mary Luckhurst. ISBN 0-19-870070-9
  • Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction (Humanities-Ebooks, 2007; Troubador, 2008; Kindle 2010). ISBN 978-1-84760-038-7 (digital ed.); ISBN 978-1-84760-069-1 (paperback ed.)
  • Literature Insights: Shakespeare, Hamlet (Humanities-Ebooks, 2007; Troubador, 2008; Kindle 2010). ISBN 978-1-84760-028-8 (digital ed.); ISBN 978-1-84760-084-4 (paperback ed.)
  • Genre Fiction Sightlines: Reginald Hill, On Beulah Height (Humanities-Ebooks, 2007; Kindle 2010). ISBN 978-1-84760-035-6
  • Genre Fiction Sightlines: Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress (Humanities-Ebooks, 2007; Kindle 2010). ISBN 978-1-84760-042-4
  • Genre Fiction Sightlines: Octavia Butler, Xenogenesis / Lilith's Brood (Humanities-Ebooks, 2007; Kindle 2010). ISBN 978-1-84760-036-3
  • Genre Fiction Sightlines: Ian McDonald, Chaga / Evolution's Shore (Humanities-Ebooks, 2007; Kindle 2010). ISBN 978-1-84760-039-4
  • Genre Fiction Sightlines: Tamora Pierce, The Immortals: Wild Magic, Wolf-Speaker, The Emperor Mage, The Realms of the Gods (Humanities-Ebooks, 2007; Kindle 2010). ISBN 978-1-84760-037-0
  • Literature Insights: Paul Scott, The Raj Quartet & Staying On (Humanities-Ebooks, 2007; Kindle 2010). ISBN 978-1-84760-956-1
  • Literature Insights: Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (Humanities-Ebooks, 2008; Kindle 2010). ISBN 978-1-84760-097-4
  • Ralph Thompson, View from Mount Diablo: An Annotated Edition (Peepal Tree Press & Humanities-Ebooks, 2009; Kindle 2010). ISBN 978-1-84523-144-6 (paperback ed.); ISBN 978-1-84760-093-6 (digital ed.)
  • Of Sex and Faerie: Further essays on Genre Fiction (Humanities-Ebooks, Troubador, & Kindle, 2010). ISBN 978-1-84760-171-1 (PDF) ISBN 978-1-84760-172-8 (Reflowable format) ISBN 978-1-84760-173-5 (paperback)
  • Literature Insights: Shakespeare, King Lear (Humanities-Ebooks & Kindle, 2010). ISBN 978-1-84760-174-2 (PDF) ISBN 978-1-84760-175-9 (Kindle)
  • Literature Insights: Reading William Faulkner: Go Down, Moses, & Big Woods (Humanities-Ebooks & Kindle, 2012). ISBN 978-1-84760-198-8 (PDF) ISBN 978-1-84760-199-5 (Kindle)
  • Talking Sense About Fifty Shades of Grey, or, Fanfiction, Feminism, and BDSM (Kindle Direct Publishing, 2012). ASIN BOOAK02ZG1


  • ‘Punctuation: and – Pragmatics’, in A. Jucker, ed., Historical Pragmatics (Benjamins, 1995), pp. 65–98. ISBN 90-272-5047-2/1-55619-328-9
  • ‘Writing to Form : Verse’, in John Singleton & Mary Luckhurst, eds, The Creative Writing Handbook: Techniques for New Writers (Macmillan, 1996; 2nd ed., 1999), pp. 164–200. ISBN 0-333-79226-2
  • ‘Classical Learning in Regional Voices: The Work of Derek Walcott, Wole Soyinka, and Tony Harrison’, in Jean Paul Lehners, Guy Schuller, & Janine Goedert, eds, Regions, nations, mondialisation: Aspects politiques, economiques, culturels (Centre Universitaire de Luxembourg, 1996), pp. 139–49. ISBN 2-87971-060-X
  • ‘CrimeFiction’, ‘Period’, ‘Punctuation’, ‘Rhyme’, ‘Apestail’, ‘Apostrophe’, ‘Blank’, ‘Caesura’, ‘Guillemets’, ‘Mise-en-Page’, ‘Nota’, ‘Parenthesis’, ‘Rhyme Scheme’, ‘Scriptio Continua’ & ‘Wrenched Accent’, in J. A. Cuddon, ed., A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory (4th ed., rev. Claire Preston, Blackwell, 1998; Penguin, 1999). ISBN 0-631-20271-4
  • ‘Mark, Space, Axis, Function: towards a (new) theory of punctuation on historical principles’, in Anne Henry, Joe Bray, & Miriam Fraser, eds, Ma(r)king the Text: The presentation of meaning on the literary page (Ashgate, 2000), pp. 1–11. ISBN 0-7546-0168-4
  • ‘Reginald Hill’, in Jay Parini, ed., British Writers Supplement IX, (Scribner’s Sons, 2004), pp. 109–26. ISBN 0-684-31237-9
  • ‘R. K. Narayan’, ‘Paul Scott’, & ‘Derek Walcott’, in Jay Parini, ed., World Writers in English (2 vols, Scribner’s Sons, 2004), II. 385-407, 645-64, 721-46. ISBN 0-684-31289-1
  • ‘Ian Rankin’, in Jay Parini, ed., British Writers Supplement X, (Scribner’s Sons, 2004), pp. 243–60. ISBN 0-684-31312-X
  • ‘Introduction’ to The Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes (OUP, 2006), pp. ix–xxxii. ISBN 0-19-280636-X
  • ‘Staging ‘the Holocaust’ in England’, & (with Dawn Fowler) ‘On War: Charles Wood’s Military Conscience’, in Mary Luckhurst, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama (Blackwell, 2006). ISBN 1-4051-2228-5
  • ‘Patrick O'Brian’, in Jay Parini, ed, British Writers Supplement XII, (Scribner's Sons, 2006), pp. 247–66. ISBN 0-684-31511-4
  • ‘Quantity and Quality in Literary Studies’, in Journal of Education and Development in the Caribbean, vol. 11, no. 1 (December 2009), pp. 23–9
  • ‘In/visible Punctuation’, in Visible Language 45.1/2 (Summer 2011), pp. 123–39.
  • ‘(Absent) Gods and the Sharing Knife: Lois McMaster Bujold’s Myths of Integration’, in Janet Brennan Croft, ed., Lois McMaster Bujold: Essays on a Modern Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2012). ISBN 978-0-7864-6833-5


  • Design and layout for Laura Curino, Passion (trans. Mary Luckhurst & Gabriella Giannachi), in Lizbeth Goodman, ed., Mythic Women/Real Women: Plays and Performance Pieces by Women (Faber & Faber, 2000), pp. 87–112. ISBN 0-571-19140-1
  • Commentary, background material, and student notes in April De Angelis, A Laughing Matter (Faber & Faber/Out of Joint, 2002). ISBN 0-571-21772-9
  • Programme essay and notes for Royal National Theatre/Out of Joint co-productions of She Stoops to Conquer and A Laughing Matter (London & touring, 2002–03)


  • ‘Dirty Weekend’, Times Literary Supplement 4591 (29/3/91)
  • ‘Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord’, Times Literary Supplement 4603 (21/6/91)
  • ‘Making Plays with Shakespeare’, The English Review 4.1 (9/93)
  • ‘Shop Talk’, London Review of Books 16.2 (27/1/94)
  • ‘When Thou hast Done...’, Essays in Criticism XLIV.2 (4/94)
  • ‘Major Horsefeathers’, Times Literary Supplement 4751 (22/4/94)
  • ‘The Redeemed Vicarage’, London Review of Books 16.9 (12/5/94)
  • ‘The Gold in Them Thar Hills’, Threepenny Review 67 (Fall 1996)
  • ‘Criminally Good’, The Guardian (London), 4/9/97, G2, p. 10
  • , The Historical Journal 41.2 (1998)
  • , Modern Language Review 96.3 (7/01)
  • ‘To Review the Reviewer’, New Theatre Journal 2 (6/02)
  • , Modern Language Review 99.1 (1/04)
  • ‘The Prodigal’, The Liberal : Poetry, Politics, Culture (February/March 2005), pp. 36–7
  • ‘Informing a Voice’, The Sunday Observer (Kingston), 18/12/05, Lifestyle, p. 22
  • ‘Without Title’, The Liberal : Poetry, Politics, Culture (February/March 2006), p. 55
  • ‘Reservoirs of Blood’, The Liberal : Poetry, Politics, Culture (Autumn 2007), pp. 54–5
  • ‘Plunder and Protection’, Jamaica Journal 31.3 (12/08), pp. 80–1
  • ‘Chapters in Verse’, The Liberal : Poetry, Politics, Culture (Spring 2009), pp. 34–6

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