Books

  • Swift (Harvester New Readings series) (1986)
  • (ed. with Peter Lewis) John Gay and the Scriblerians (Vision Press, 1988) - critical essays from the Tercentenary Conference I organized in July, 1985 at Collingwood College, Durham.   I wrote the Introduction (pp.11-22) and “John Gay and the Ironies of Rustic Simplicity” (pp. 94-121)
  • (ed.) Dr. Johnson and Fanny Burney: Selections from the Early Prose,1777-88 (Bristol Classical Press, 1989)
  • (ed.) Selected Letters of Fanny Burney (Oxford Text Archive, 1989)
  • (ed.) Mansfield Park (Open University Press) Theory in Practice series -1993) - also a volume Introduction (pp.3-38), Introductions to each essay (30-32, 56-              58, 91-92, 121-24) and Endpiece (198-202)
  • (ed.) Don Juan (TiP series - 1993) - volume Introduction (pp.4-37), Introductions to each essay (26-28, 56-57, 90-92, 122-24) and Endpiece (pp.189-94)
  • (ed.) The Prelude (TiP series - 1993) - volume Introduction (pp.3-40), Introductions to each essay (27-29, 60-62, 98-100, 125-28) and Endpiece (pp.192-98)
  • (ed. with Tony Davies) The Waste Land (TiP series - 1994) - volume Introduction (pp.1-28)
  • (ed. with Tony Davies) A Passage to India (TiP series - 1994) – Introductions to each essay (23-24, 65-67, 90-93, 121-23) and Endpiece (144-49)
  • (ed.) The Tempest (TiP series - 1995) - volume introduction (pp.1-29), Introduction to each essay (25-27, 58-60, 92-94, 133-35) and Endpiece (194-97)
  • (ed.) Henry IV, Parts I and II (TiP series - 1995) - volume introduction (pp.1-34), Introduction to each essay (35-37, 65-67, 92-94, 126-28), and Endpiece (162-69)
  • (ed.) The Merchant of Venice (TiP series - 1996) - volume introduction (pp.1-22), Introduction to each essay (23-24, 57-60, 102-3, 124-26), and Endpiece (164-68)
  • (ed.) Measure for Measure (TiP series - 1996) - volume introduction (pp.1-8), Introduction to each essay (9-11, 44-46, 90-91, 133-35) and Endpiece (179-81)
  • (ed.) Antony and Cleopatra (TiP series - 1996) - volume introduction (pp.1-8), Introduction to each essay (9-11, 40-43, 66-67, 92-95), and Endpiece (125-27)
  • (ed. with Peter J. Smith) Hamlet (TiP series - 1996) - Introduction to each essay (pp.24-26, 55-56, 83-84, 108-10), and Endpiece (133-37)
  • (ed.) Swift: The Longman Critical Reader (1999)
  • (rev. and expanded) Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader, 2nd. ed., 1st. ed. by David Lodge (2000 – enlarged electronic edition, 2001).
  • (rev. and expanded) Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader, 3rd. ed. (including 25 new essays; a volume of 879 pages – 2008),
  • Introductory essay and annotated bibliography entry on Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 (LPPublishing, 2019)
  • Shakespeare and Reception Theory (Arden Shakespeare, 2020) 

Articles

  • “Touring the Peaks: Cotton and Defoe’s Tourism”, The Seventeenth-Century, II (1985), 124-35
  • “Keats’ Smokeable Narratives: Isabella and The Eve of St. Agnes”, Proceedings of the English Association North, II (1986), 90-102
  • “Barthes and Foucault on Simplicity”, Cross-References (1986) (French Studies special No.), ed. David Kelley and Isabella Llasera, pp.45-55
  • “The English Andrew Motion”, Poetry Durham, No.21 (Summer, 1989), 31-36
  • “Graham Greene and the Image of the Author”, Graham Greene in Perspective,   ed. Peter Erlebach and Thomas Michael Stein (Peter Lang, 1992), pp.32-45
  • The General, Prose and Drama chapters for the Eighteenth Century section in the 1991-94 (vols. 72-75) Year’s Work in English Studies
  • “Mocking the Heroic: A New Context for The Rape of the Lock?”,in Cutting Edges: Post-Modern Views on Satire, ed. James T. Gill (Tennessee UP (1996), pp.171-202
  • “Conversation and Connection in Johnson’s Dictionary”, Yearbook of English Studies, ed. Andrew Gurr (English Association, 1998) pp.123-46
  • “How does Hamlet End ?”, in Talking Shakespeare, ed. Deborah Cartmell and Michael Scott (Palgrave Press [Macmillan], 2001), pp. 34-54.
  • “Gulliver as Traveller”, in Contexts of Literature, ed. Rick Rylance and Judy Simons (Palgrave, 2002), pp. 67-88.
  • “Ut sculptura poesis: Romantic Poetry and Sculptural Form”, in British Poetry and Art, ed. Thomas Frangenburg (Peter Arne, 2005), pp. 236-56
  • “Official and Unofficial Spleen”, in  Depression and After, ed. Allan Ingram and Juliette Otres (Montpellier, 2011), pp. 45-57
  • “Brecht, Said and a Humanist Coriolanus”, in Humanism and After, ed. Andrew Mousley (Palgrave, 2011), pp. 65-80.
  • “Shakespeare and the Public Sphere”, Shakespeare, 5 (2013), 54-78,
  • “Framing Clarissa’s Good Sense in The Rape of the Lock”, Essays in Criticism (2013), 393-410,
  • “Pope and the Horatian Voice”, Vision and Voice in Eighteenth-Century Verse, ed. Rowena Fowler and Alan Ingram (Palgrave, 2014), pp. 67-89,
  • (ed.) Shakespeare special number (November 2018) – “Introduction” and “The ending of Twelfth Night”, 2-21, 54-68.,
  • “Powell’s Modernism”, in The Anthony Powell Society Conference – Merton College, Oxford, 2018, ed. Keith Marshall and Jeremy Warren (Anthony Powell Society, 2019), pp. 101-14,
  •  “Digitally Post-Human: Living On and After” , Countertext (6.1, 2020), 78-101, 
  • “Evelyn Waugh and the Military Life”, in Peter Vassallo: A Festschrift (Mersea Press, 2020), pp. 65-87,
  • “Taking Love’s Labour’s Lost Seriously”, Shakespeare Survey (2021), 208-221.

Nigel has also reviewed regularly over the last five years for the British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies.   Reviews have also appeared in the London Review of Books, Review of English Studies, Cahiers Elisabethains, The Byron Journal, Archiv, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Shakespeare Quarterly and Shakespeare Survey.