Dr Charles Moseley, Hughes Hall

cwrdm2@cam.ac.uk

 

 

Research Interests

Travel writing of the middle ages and early modern period - especially Mandeville; Writing and landscape; Emblem literature of the early modern period. Published work includes material on Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare, Mandeville, Wordsworth, Wainwright, historical drama and  the emblem form.

Selected Publications

  • Hungry Heart Roaming: An Odyssey of Sorts,(London: Eyewear Publishing, 2021)
  • Engaging with Chaucer: Theory, Practice, Reading(Berghahn: HewYork and Oxford, 2020)
  • ‘ “Look on this picture, and on this”: or “words, words, words”? in L'Image Brisée XVIe-XVIIe siècles / Breaking the Image 16th-17th centuries, Agnès Lafont, Christian Belin and Nicholas Myers (eds.), Paris: Classiques Garnier, (2019)
  • ‘The Travels of Sir John Mandeville’, in the Routledge Online Encyclopaedia of Medieval Studies (2018).
  • ‘Ancestral Voices’, in Literature and Cultural Memory, ed. Dragos Manea and Andreea Paris, (Amsterdam: Brill, 2017)
  • ‘Thomas Campion’s “There is a Garden in her Face”: text, context, subtext’, in Leonor de Santa Barbara, ed. Flowers: Proceedings of the International Interdisciplinary conference, Nueva Universidad de Lisbõa, 2011 Húmus, for Fundação para Ciéncia e a Tecnologia (In the Press)
  • Editorial essay as Guest Editor in Chaucer: Theory, Practice, Reading,) Critical Survey,29 (3), pp. 1-5
  • ‘ Tu numeris elementa ligas’: The Consolation of Nature’s Numbers in Parlement of Foulys, in Chaucer: Theory, Practice, Reading: Critical Survey,29 (3), pp. 86-113..
  • Editorial essay as Guest Editor in Chaucer: Theory, Practice, Reading: Critical Survey,30, (2), pp. 1-5
  • Emblems and emblematics’, Cambridge World Shakespeare Encyclopaedia, ed. Bruce Smith (Cambridge University Press: In the  Press).
  • ' "Action is Eloquence”: text, script, performance and the failure of criticism’, The Said and the Unsaid, ed. Bledar Toska (University of Vlora, in the Press)
  • Coming to Terms: Cambridge In and Out, (London: IndieBooks, 2017)
  • Latitude North, (London: IndieBooks, 2015)
  • ‘“The Groves of Eden, vanished now so long…”: Landscape, Art and Ideology in picturing the Lost Domain’, in Milton Through the  Centuries, ed. Peti Miklos and Fabiny Tibor, (Karoli Gaspar University, Budapest, 2012).
  • ‘”How the Devil did he learn our Language?’ Richard III and his languages’, English Studies in Albania, I (i) 2011.
  •  "New Things to speak of": Money, Memory and Mandeville’s Travels in early modern England’, Yearbook of English Studies Special Issue on  Early Modern Travel Fiction, ed. N. Das, 41.1 (2011), pp.5-20.
  •  "Whet-stone leasings of old Maundevile: Reading the Travels in Early Modern England", Mandeville and Mandevillian Lore in Early Modern England Ed. Ladan Niayesh, Manchester University Press, 2011.
  •  ‘Introducing Mr Shakespeare, or What’s in a Title Page?’, trans. T.Ozawa,in Ozawa, T. et al., .A Kaleidoscope of Literature:English and American Literatures, and their Surrounding Areas,  (Tokyo: Renga Shobo Shinsha. (New Brick Bookshop), 2010), pp.266-311.
  •  Chapter 5 in The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Last Plays,  ed. C. M. Alexander, (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
  • C. W. R. D. Moseley,    A Very Brief Introduction to Theatre and theatres of Shakespeare’s Time(Humanities ebooks, 2007).
  • Charles Moseley, "Mandeville and the Amazons", Jean de Mandeville in Europa. Neue Perspektiven in der Reiseliteraturforschung 12, Ed. Ernst Bremer/Susanne Ruhl, 2007.
  • Charles Moseley, "A Portrait of Sir Christopher Hatton, Erasmus and an Emblem of Alciato: some questions", The Antiquaries Journal 86, 2006.
  • Charles Moseley, "Review of Wayne Davis, 'Writing Geographical Exploration: James and the Northwest Passage'", Polar Record 41.2, 2005, 168-71.
  • Charles Moseley, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, Penguin Books, 2005.
  • Charles Moseley, "William Shakespeare", Continuum Encyclopaedia of British Literature,, Ed. S Serafin, Continuum, 2002