Dr Ashley Chantler

Published work

Ashley is currently working on Ford Madox Ford’s poetry and co-editing Ford Madox Ford: An Introduction. 

 He is the Series Editor of Character Studies (Continuum). Books in the series include studies of Hamlet, Othello, Twelfth Night, Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Heart of Darkness, Waiting for Godot, and Beloved.

Books

Literature and Authenticity, 1780-1900: Essays in Honour of Vincent Newey, ed. with Michael Davies and Philip Shaw (Ashgate, 2011).

Studying English Literature, ed. with David Higgins (Continuum, 2010).

Translation Practices: Through Language to Culture, ed. with Carla Dente (Rodopi, 2009).

‘Heart of Darkness': Character Studies (Continuum, 2008).

The Alternative A-Z of English Literature, ed. with Terry Claridge (Alternative Press, 2008).

Recent essays and articles

• ‘Literature 1901-1945', in Studying English Literature, ed. with David Higgins (Continuum, 2010)
• ‘Image-Music-Text: Ford and the Impressionist Lyric', in Ford Madox Ford and Visual Media, ed. Laura Colombino (Rodopi, 2009)
• ‘The Film of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker', in Textual Revisions: Readings in Literature and Film, ed. Brian Baker (Chester Academic Press, 2009)
• ‘Notes Towards the Definition of the Short-Short Story', in The Short Story, ed. Ailsa Cox (Cambridge Scholars, 2009)
• ‘"Paring His Fingernails"? The Textual Editor as Translator', in Translation Practices: Through Language to Culture, ed. with Carla Dente (Rodopi, 2009)
• ‘Creating an Editorial Procedure for Non-Canonical Texts', in Textual Variations: The Impact of Textual Studies on Literary Studies, ed. Rebecca Styler and Joseph Pridmore (University of Leicester Press, 2006)
• ‘Ford's Pre-War Poetry and the "Rotting City"', in Ford Madox Ford and the City, ed. Sara Haslam (Rodopi, 2005)
• ‘Angelic Metamorphoses: Metaphysics in Eastern Europe', in Proteus: The Language of Metamorphoses, ed. Carla Dente, George Ferzoco, Miriam Gill and Marina Spunta (Ashgate, 2005)

Reviews in the Byron Journal

• ‘Mary Shelley, The Original Frankenstein. Edited by Charles E. Robinson; Frankenstein. By Audrey A. Fisch', Byron Journal (forthcoming).
• ‘Alternative Romanticisms: Proceedings of the Grimma Conference 2001. Edited by Werner Huber and marie-Luise Egbert', Byron Journal, 36.1 (2008).
•  ‘Romantic Metropolis: The Urban Scene of British Culture, 1780-1840. Edited by James Chandler and Kevin Gilmartin; Georgic Modernity and British Romanticism: Poetry and the Mediation of History. By Kevis Goodman', Byron Journal, 34.2 (2006).
• ‘The Cambridge Companion to Byron. Edited by Drummond Bone', Byron Journal, 34.1 (2006).
• ‘English Romanticism and the Celtic World. Edited by Gerard Carruthers and Alan Rawes', Byron Journal, 32.1 (2004).
• ‘Byron: The Erotic Liberal. By Jonathan David Gross; Mapping Male Sexuality: Nineteenth-Century England. Edited by Jay Losey and William D. Brewer', Byron Journal, 30 (2002).
• ‘Women's Gothic: From Clara Reeve to Mary Shelley. By E. J. Clery; Mary Wollstonecraft. By Jane Moore; Mary Shelley. By Miranda Seymour; Mary Shelley: A Literary Life. By John Williams; Mary Shelley in Her Times. Edited by Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran', Byron Journal, 29 (2001).
• ‘Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: An Introduction. By Betty T. Bennett', Byron Journal, 28 (2000).

Online bibliography

• 'Critical Writing on Ford Madox Ford, 2000 Onwards'

Creative writing

Ashley's poems have been published in various periodicals, including Anon, Day by Day, Eclipse, First Offense, London Magazine, Orbis, Poetry Monthly, Rain Dog, Red Ink, Shadow Train, and Vigil. His poetry collection, In Praise of Paving, appeared in 2003 and his illustrated poem for children, Nana and Grape, in 2004. His next collection is provisionally titled Love. He is currently revising a novella, He Is the Fire.

For Chester Academic Press, Ashley has edited: Prize Flights (2004), Life Lines (2005) and An Anatomy of Chester (2007).