Professor Scott McCracken

Title: Professor
Phone: (+44) 01782 734145
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Location: CBB 1.040
Role: Deputy Programme Director
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Scott McCracken's main research interests are in literature and culture 1880-1920, modernism, gender, critical theory and popular fiction and he would welcome PhD students in any of these areas.

He is co-organiser with Daniella Caselli and Andrew Thacker of the Northern Modernism Seminar

He has set up a website devoted to the modernist author Dorothy Richardson using research funded by the British Academy.

Selected Publications

  • Mccracken MS. 2013. All bets are off: Woolf, Benjamin and the problem of the future in Jacob's Room. Le Tour Critique.
  • Glover D, Daly N, Caughie J, Luckhurst R, Humble N, McCracken S, Mitchell K, Smith EA, Botting F, Chute H, Dekoven M, Silver BR. McCracken S and Glover D (Eds.). 2012. The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction. Cambridge University Press.
  • Glover D and Mccracken MS. 2012. Introduction. In The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction. Glover D and McCracken S (Eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • McCracken S. 2011. Literature as History: Essays in Honour of Peter Widdowson. REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES, vol. 62(254), 333-335. link> doi>
  • MCCRACKEN MS. 2011. The Lives of Others: The Defeat of Evil or the Evil of Defeat?. In Evil, Barbarism and Empire. Britain and Abroad c1830-2000. Crook T, Gill R, Taithe B (Eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

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Books

  • Glover D, Daly N, Caughie J, Luckhurst R, Humble N, McCracken S, Mitchell K, Smith EA, Botting F, Chute H, Dekoven M, Silver BR. McCracken S and Glover D (Eds.). 2012. The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction. Cambridge University Press.
  • McCracken S. 2007. Masculinities, Modernist Fiction and the Urban Public Sphere. Manchester University Press.
  • McCracken S. McCracken S, Buse P, Taithe B (Eds.). 2006. Benjamin's Arcades: An Unguided Tour. Manchester University Press.

Journal Articles

  • Mccracken MS. 2013. All bets are off: Woolf, Benjamin and the problem of the future in Jacob's Room. Le Tour Critique.
  • McCracken S. 2011. Literature as History: Essays in Honour of Peter Widdowson. REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES, vol. 62(254), 333-335. link> doi>
  • McCracken S. 2010. Form and Meaning in Dorothy M. Richardson's Pilgrimage. ENGLISH LITERATURE IN TRANSITION 1880-1920, vol. 53(1), 118-122. link>
  • McCracken S. 2007. Popular fiction: The logics and practices of a literary field. TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE, vol. 53(2), 218-223. link>
  • McCracken S. 2002. The Completion of Old Work: Walter Benjamin and the Everyday. Cultural Critique, vol. 52, 145-166. doi>
  • McCracken S. 2001. From performance to public sphere: the production of modernist masculinities. Testual Practice, vol. 15(1), 47-65.

Chapters

  • Glover D and Mccracken MS. 2012. Introduction. In The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction. Glover D and McCracken S (Eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • MCCRACKEN MS. 2011. The Lives of Others: The Defeat of Evil or the Evil of Defeat?. In Evil, Barbarism and Empire. Britain and Abroad c1830-2000. Crook T, Gill R, Taithe B (Eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • MCCRACKEN M. 2010. 'Imagining The Modernist City, 1870-1945'. In The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms. Brooker P, Gasiorek A, Longworth D, Thacker A (Eds.). Oxford University Press, USA.
  • MCCRACKEN M. 2009. The Oxford critical and cultural history of modernist magazines. In The Oxford critical and cultural history of modernist magazines. Brooker P and Thacker A (Eds.). Oxford University Press, USA.
  • Mccracken MS. 2009. Cambridge Magazines and Unfinished Business: Experiment (1928-30), The Venture (1928-30), and Cambridge Left (1933-4). In The Oxford critical and cultural history of modernist magazines. Brooker P and Thacker A (Eds.). (vol. 1). Oxford University Press.
  • MCCRACKEN M. 2009. Modernism and the Moment of Defeat: Response to Andrew John Miller. In Modernism and theory. Ross S (Ed.). Abingdon: Routledge.
  • McCracken S. 2005. Just a morsel to stay your appetite: George Gissing and the Cultural Politics of Food. In George Gissing: Voices of the Unclassed. Ryle M and Bourne-Taylor J (Eds.). Ashgate.
  • McCracken S. 2005. The Half Lives of Literary Fictions: genre fictions in the late twentieth century. In Cambridge History of Twentieth Century Literature. Marcus L and Nicholls P (Eds.). Cambridge University Press.
  • McCracken S. 2005. Voyages by Teashop: An Urban Geography of Modernism. In The Geopgraphies of Modernism. Thacker A and Brooker P (Eds.). Routledge.

Other

  • McCracken S. 2005. Between Dreamworlds and Real Worlds: Gissing's London. GISSING AND THE CITY: CULTURAL CRISIS AND THE MAKING OF BOOKS IN LATE-VICTORIAN ENGLAND (pp. 86-99). link>