Staff profile

My research interests are in Romanticism, especially the poetry and poetics of the period. I completed a monograph on Poetics of Self and Form in Keats and Shelley (Ashgate, 2005) and a further book-length study of Romanticism, Memory, and Mourning (Ashgate, 2013). I have started to write a complementary study of Romantic and Victorian Spectral Presences: From Wordsworth to the Brownings. My interests in the Romantics extend to the imaginative and cultural legacies that Romanticism confers to the literary and cultural imagination of the late nineteenth century and beyond. I co-edited a critical collection of essays on Romantic Echoes in the Victorian Era (Ashgate, 2008) and edited a volume on Romantic Presences in the Twentieth Century (Ashgate, 2012). My other co-edited collections, including Venice and the Cultural Imagination (Pickering & Chatto, 2012) and The Persistence of Beauty: Victorians to the Moderns (Pickering & Chatto, 2015), explore further the complexities of Romanticism's imaginative and cultural afterlives. My co-edited collection, Decadent Romanticism 1780-1914 (Ashgate, 2015), addresses more fully these concerns, touched upon elsewhere in my research, about the cultural and imaginative reactions (positive and negative) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the Romantics. As part of my current research on spectral presences in Romantic and Victorian poetics, I have also recently co-edited a collection on Ghostly Encounters: Cultural and Imaginary Representations of the Spectral from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (Routledge, 2021).

My additional research interests in critical theory and twentieth-century British and American Literature (including Jewish American Literature of the post-war era) are brought together in discrete, but inter-related, ways in my recent third-book length study of Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism: Aesthetics, Subjectivity, and the Environment (Edinburgh University Press, 2021; forthcoming in paperback 2022). In connection with this research, I was awarded a Visiting Scholars Fellowship (between August and September 2017) to work with the nineteenth-century rare books and special manuscripts collection at the Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University, Texas. In January 2022, I returned to Texas as a three-month Research Fellow at the Armstrong Browning Library. During my time there I researched rare primary materials for a four-volumes on Loss, Memory, and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century: 1780-1914 (contracted with Routledge's Historical Resources Series). I am co-editor on a number of these volumes and the General Editor of the complete four-volume set. 

I am a co-director of the Department's 'Romantic Dialogues and Legacies' research group. I am an advisory board member of the inter-disciplinary Centre for Death and Life Studies based in Durham. I am part of a national network on Romanticism and Ageing, involving Keele University, and the Universities of Lincoln and Nottingham. I am also a member of the Executive Committee of the British Association of Romantic Studies (BARS) and the current editor of the Review for BARS (published twice yearly). 

(Office hours in term time: Tuesdays, 1-2pm. Please contact me by email to make an appointment)

Postgraduate Supervision:

I have supervised successful doctoral theses on various aspects of Romantic poetry and poetics, including the thought and writing of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Shelley, and Burns.

Research Proposals

I would be interested in proposals on any aspect of Romantic Literature (especially Romantic poetry; philosophy; subjectivity; grief; questions of Romantic legacy and inheritance).

I would also welcome proposals for postgraduate research on any aspect of the inheritance or disinheritance of Romantic writing, culture, and thought in British or American literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 

 

• American Literature
• Romantic Poetry

Authored book

• Sandy, M. (2021). Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism: Aesthetics, Subjectivity and the Environment. Edinburgh University Press
• Sandy, M. (2013). Romanticism, Memory, and Mourning. Ashgate Publishing
• Sandy, M. (2005). Poetics of Self and Form in Keats and Shelley: Nietzschean Subjectivity and Genre. Ashgate Publishing

Chapter in book

• Sandy, M. (2022). 'A Season Changes Colour to No End': Keats's 'To Autumn', Wallace Stevens, and the Post-Romantic Imagination. In B. Lau, G. Kucich, & D. Johnson (Eds.), Keats's Reading / Reading Keats: Essays in Memory of Jack Stillinger. Palgrave
• Sandy, M. (2021). "Thy Wreck a Glory": Venice, Subjectivity, and Temporality in Byron, Shelley, and the Post-Romantic Imagination. In S. Laniel-Musitelli, & C. Sabiron (Eds.), Romanticism and Time: Literary Temporalities (206-224). Open Books. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0232
• Sandy, M. (2019). Strange Truths: Romantic Reimaginings in Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. In K. Boyiopoulos, A. Patterson, & M. Sandy (Eds.), Literary and cultural alternatives to Modernism : unsettling presences (38-51). Routledge
• Sandy, M. (2019). "A Ruin Amidst Ruins": Modernity, Literary Aphorism, and Romantic Fragments. In K. Boyiopoulos, & M. Shallcross (Eds.), Aphoristic Modernity: 1880 to the present (37-52). Anthem
• Quelques réflexions sur les perspectives anglo-saxonnes'. In V. (. Feullebois, & J. Diaz (Eds.), Lectures critiques du romantisme au XXe siècle (163-97). Classiques Garnier. https://doi.org/10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-08071-8
• Sandy, M. (2017). American Writing. In M. O'Neill (Ed.), John Keats in Context (300-309). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107707474.031
• Sandy, M. (2015). "The Last Great Romantic": Nietzsche's Decadence Out of the Spirit of Romanticism. In K. Boyiopoulos, & M. Sandy (Eds.), Decadent Romanticism 1780-1914 (131-144). Ashgate Publishing
• Sandy, M. (2015). "Ghostly Language": Spectral Presences and Subjectivity in Wordsworth’s Salisbury Plain Poems. In S. Laniel-Musitelli, & T. Constantinesco (Eds.), Romanticism and philosophy : thinking with literature (60-73). Routledge
• Sandy, M. (2015). "The Enigmatical Beauty of Each Beautiful Enigma": The Persistence of Beauty and Death in the Poetics of Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens. In M. O'Neill, M. Sandy, & S. Wootton (Eds.), The Persistence of Beauty: Victorians to the Moderns (71-85). Pickering & Chatto
• Sandy, M. (2013). Quest Poetry: Alastor and Epipsychidion. In M. O'Neill, & A. Howe (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley (272-88). Oxford UP
• Sandy, M. (2012). "Fiery Particle": Keats's Romantic Presences in the Writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald. In M. Sandy (Ed.), Romantic Presences in the Twentieth Century (149-162). Ashgate Publishing
• Sandy, M. (2012). Reimagining Venice and Visions of Decay in Wordsworth, the Shelleys, and Thomas Mann. In M. O'Neill, M. Sandy, & S. Wootton (Eds.), Venice and the Cultural Imagination: 'This Strange Dream upon the Water' (27-42). Pickering & Chatto
• Sandy, M. (2008). '"Echoes of that Voice:" Romantic Resonances in Victorian Poetic Birdsong'. In A. Radford, & M. Sandy (Eds.), Romantic Echoes in the Victorian Era (155-173). Ashgate Publishing
• Sandy, M. (2007). 'Ruinous Perfection': Reading Authors and Writing Readers in Romantic Fragments. In A. Rawes (Ed.), Romanticism and form (60-77). Palgrave Macmillan
• Sandy, M. (2005). Percy Bysshe Shelley; A Political Poet. In M. Booker (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics: Censorship, Revolution, and Writing (654-655). Greenhorn Press
• Sandy, M. (2005). Jewish American Literature. In M. Booker (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics: Censorship, Revolution, and Writing (384-388). Greenhorn Press
• Sandy, M. (2002). "[W]hate’er these words cannot express": Transgressive Fictions in Shelley’s "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty", "To a Skylark", and "Ode to the West Wind". In F. Price, & S. Masson (Eds.), Silence, sublimity and suppression in the Romantic period (23-41). Edwin Mellen Press
• Sandy, M. (2002). William Drummond: A Biographical Entry. In W. Mander, & A. Sell (Eds.), Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Philosophers. Thoemmes Press

Edited book

• Cracolici, S., & Sandy, M. (Eds.). (2021). Ghostly Encounters: Cultural and Imaginary Representations of the Spectral from the Nineteenth Century to the Present. Routledge
• Boyiopoulos, K., Patterson, A., & Sandy, M. (Eds.). (2019). Literary and Cultural Alternatives to Modernism: Unsettling Presences. Routledge
• Boyiopoulos, K., & Sandy, M. (Eds.). (2015). Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914. Ashgate Publishing
• O'Neill, M., Sandy, M., & Wootton, S. (Eds.). (2015). The Persistence of Beauty: Victorians to Moderns. Pickering & Chatto
• Sandy, M. (Ed.). (2012). Romantic Presences in the Twentieth Century. Ashgate Publishing
• O'Neill, M., Sandy, M., & Wootton, S. (Eds.). (2012). Venice and the Cultural Imagination: 'This Strange Dream upon the Water'. Pickering & Chatto
• Radford, A., & Sandy, M. (Eds.). (2008). Romantic Echoes in the Victorian Era. Ashgate Publishing
• O'Neill, M., & Sandy, M. (Eds.). (2005). Romanticism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies. Routledge

Journal Article

• Sandy, M. (2022). The Sense of an Ending: Poetic Spaces and Closure in Keats's 1819 Odes. Romanticism, 28(2), 188-196. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2022.0554
• Sandy, M. (2020). "I Have Thought/Too Long and Darkly": Writing and Reading Modes of Being in Byron. The Byron Journal, 48(2), 133-143. https://doi.org/10.3828/bj.2020.19
• Sandy, M. (2019). ‘Strength in What Remains Behind’: Wordsworth and the Question of Ageing. Romanticism, 25(3), 261-270. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2019.0431
• Sandy, M. (2016). "Lines of Light": Poetic Variations in Wordsworth, Byron, and Shelley.'. Romanticism, 22(3), 260-268. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2016.0287
• Sandy, M. (2012). Wordsworth and the Circulation of Grief. Essays in Criticism, 62(3), 248-264. https://doi.org/10.1093/escrit/cgs010
• Sandy, M. (2011). '"Cut by Rainbow": Tales, Tellers, and Reimagining Wordsworth's Pastoral Poetics in Toni Morrison's Beloved and A Mercy'. MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 36(2), 35-51
• Sandy, M. (2008). "The Colossal Fabric’s Form": Remodelling Memory, History, and Forgetting in Byron’s Poetic Recollections of Ruins. Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, https://doi.org/10.7202/019258ar
• Sandy, M., & Wootton, S. (2008). Modelling the Self: Subjectivity and Identity in Romantic and Post-Romantic Thought and Culture. Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net,
• Sandy, M. (2008). "Webbed with Golden Lines:" Saul Bellow's Romanticism. Romanticism, 14(1), 57-67. https://doi.org/10.1353/rom.0.0013
• Sandy, M. (2006). Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Keats Criticism. Literature Compass, 3(6), 1320-1333. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00379.x
• Sandy, M. (2000). Dream Lovers and Tragic Romance: Negative Fictions in Keats's Lamia, The Eve of St. Agnes , and Isabella
• Sandy, M. (2000). "Stormy Visions:" Shelley's Re-invention of Myth, Memory and Identity in Adonais. The Keats-Shelley Review, 84-94
• Sandy, M. (1998). "To See as a God Sees:" The Potential Ubermensch in Keats's 'Hyperion' Fragments. Romanticism, 4(2), 212-223

Other (Print)

• Sandy, M. (2002). Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Biographical Entry