Books

• Shears J. 2020. The Hangover: A Literary and Cultural History. Liverpool University Press. link>
• Shears JR. 2017. The Great Exhibition, 1851: A Sourcebook. Manchester University Press. link>
• Shears JR and Beatty B. 2016. Byron's Temperament: Essays in Body and Mind. Cambridge Scholars. link>
• Shears J. Harrison J (Ed.). 2013. Literary bric-a-brac and the Victorians: From Commodities to Oddities. (1st ed.). Aldershot: Ashgate. doi> link>
• Shears J. Harrison J (Ed.). 2013. Literary bric-a-brac and the Victorians: From Commodities to Oddities. (1st ed.). Aldershot: Ashgate. doi> link>
• Shears J. Shears J and Rawes A (Eds.). 2010. Reading, Writing and the Influence of Harold Bloom. Manchester: Manchester University Press. link>
• Shears J. Shears J and Rawes A (Eds.). 2010. Reading, Writing and the Influence of Harold Bloom. Manchester: Manchester University Press. link>
• Shears J. 2009. The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost: Reading Against the Grain. Aldershot: Ashgate. doi> link>

Journal Articles

• Shears J. 'Thou Breath of Autumn’s Being': Voicing Masculinity in the Poetry of Late Life. Journal of the British Academy, vol. 11(Supplementary Issue 2). full text>
• Shears J, Adiseshiah S, Culley A. Narratives of Old Age and Gender: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Journal of the British Academy, vol. 11(Supplementary Issue 2).
• Shears J. 2023. ‘Rough Critical Winds’: Mis-selling English Pastoral in H. E. Bates’s Larkin Novels, 1958-1970’. English Studies: a journal of English language and literature. doi> link> full text>
• Shears J. 2021. An Allusion to Don Juan: Reappraising Branwell Bronte's Byronic Self-Fashioning. Brontë Studies. doi> full text>
• Shears J. 2021. The Aesthetics of Senescence: Aging, Population, and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel. Andrea Charise. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2020. Pp. xlv+194. Modern Philology, E264-E266, vol. 118(4). doi> link> full text>
• Kistler J and Shears J. 2020. Integrating Video Content into Humanities Teaching: a case study. Journal of Academic Development and Education. full text>
• Shears JR and Fallon D. 2019. Romanticism and Ageing: An Introduction. Romanticism, 217-224, vol. 25(3). doi> link> full text>
• Shears JR. 2019. 'Old Men - and Women - May be Permitted to Speak Long': Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Voice of Experience. Romanticism, 249-260, vol. 25(3). doi> link> full text>
• Shears JR. 2017. Byron and Premature Aging. Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, , vol. 13(2). link> full text>
• Shears JR. 2017. In One We Shall Be Slower: Byron, Retribution and Forgiveness. Christianity and Literature. doi> full text>
• Shears JR. 2014. Byron's Habits. The Keats-Shelley Review, 25-36, vol. 28(1). doi>
• Shears J. 2013. Listening to Christabel: Sound, Silence and the Contingencies of Voice. Romanticism, 44-56, vol. 1(19). doi>
• Shears J. 2012. ‘“D----d Corkscrew Staircases”: Byron’s Hangovers’. The Byron Journal, vol. 40(1). doi>
• Shears J. 2008. Byron's Aposiopesis. Romanticism, 183-195, vol. 14(2). doi>
• Shears J. 2006. ‘A tale untold: The Search for a Story in Byron’s Lara’. The Byron Journal, vol. 34(1). doi>

Chapters

• Shears J. 2022. When the Clock Takes Over: Hangovers in Twentieth-Century British and American Fiction and Poetry. In Routledge Handbook of Intoxicants and Intoxication. Hunt G, Antin T, Frank V (Eds.). (34 vols.). Routledge. doi> link>
• Shears J. 2021. Not for Envy: Paradise Lost and the Inward Turn in Byron's Cain. In Byron Among the English Poets. Bucknell C and Ward M (Eds.). (20 vols.). Cambridge University Press. doi> link>
• Shears JR. 2019. Self and Society: Hair Consciousness in the Age of Empire. In A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of Empire. Heaton S (Ed.). Bloomsbury.
• Shears JR. 2018. Bunyan and the Romantics. In The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan. Davies M and Owens WR (Eds.). Oxford University Press.
• Shears JR. 2018. I Ask His Pardon for a Postscript: Byron's Epistolary Afterthoughts. In Byron and the Margins of Romanticism. Edinburgh University Press. link> full text>
• Shears JR. 2016. Byron's Hypochondria. In Byron's Temperament: Essays in Body and Mind. Cambridge Scholars.
• Shears JR. 2015. Wordsworth's English Poets. In The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth. Gravil R and Robinson D (Eds.). Oxford University Press.
• Shears J. 2013. Digesting Don Juan Cantos I and II. In Aspects of Don Juan. Cochran P (Ed.). Cambridge Scholars.
• Shears JR and Harrison J. 2013. Literary Bric-a-Brac: Introducing Things. In Literary Bric-a-Brac and the Victorians: From Commodities to Oddities. Ashgate.
• Shears J and Harrison J. 2013. ‘The Ideas in Thing Town: Villette, Art and Moveable Objects’. In Literary bric-a-brac and the Victorians: From Commodities to Oddities. Shears and Sattaur (Eds.). Aldershot: Ashgate.
• Shears J. 2012. ‘“Why should I hide my regard?”: Erotic Austen’. In Sex, Society and Television. Johnson, Glynn, Aston (Eds.). Continuum.
• Shears J. 2010. ‘Continuity in the Self: Wordsworth, Byron, Bloom’. In Reading, Writing and the Influence of Harold Bloom. Shears and Rawes (Eds.). Manchester: Manchester University Press.
• Shears J. 2008. ‘Aesthetic Dialectic in Sardanapalus’. In Byron: Liberty and Poetic Licence. Beatty, Howe, Robinson (Eds.). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
• Shears J. 2008. ‘Byron and Wordsworth: Satan’s Neoclassical and Romantic Heirs’. In Byron: Heritage and Legacy. Wilson (Ed.). Palgrave.
• Shears J. 2008. ‘“The truth is in abeyance”: Byron the coquettish narrator’. In Refiguring the Coquette. King and Schlick (Eds.). Bucknell University Press.
• Shears J. 2006. '"Approaching the Unapproached Light": Milton and the Romantic Visionary’. In Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens. Hopps G and Stabler J (Eds.). Aldersot: Ashgate.