Michael D. Hurley teaches English at the University of Cambridge, where he is a University Lecturer and a Fellow of St Catharine's College. He has written widely on literary style and its relationship with feeling and thinking. His books include Faith in Poetry: Verse Style as a Mode of Religious Belief (Bloomsbury, 2017), G. K. Chesterton (Northcote House, 2012), and (co-authored with Michael O'Neill) Poetic Form (CUP, 2012). Marcus Waithe is a Fellow in English and University Senior Lecturer at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is the author of William Morris's Utopia of Strangers: Victorian Medievalism and the Ideal of Hospitality (2006), and of numerous essays and articles on Victorian and twentieth-century topics. A collection of essays, co-edited with Claire White, entitled The Labour Literature in Britain and France, 1830-1930: Authorial Work Ethics is forthcoming with Palgrave. He is also completing a monograph entitled The Work of Words: Literature and the Labour of Mind in Britain, 1830-1930.
* Introduction: Thinking, Thinkers, Style, Stylists
* 1: James Engell: 'A Hare in Every Nettle': Coleridge's Prose
* 2: Matthew Bevis: Charles Lamb . . . Seriously
* 3: Freya Johnston: Keeping to William Hazlitt
* 4: Michael O'Neill: 'Pictures' and 'Signs': Creative Thinking in
Shelley's Prose, 1816-1821
* 5: Ruth Scurr: 'The greatest irregular': Thomas Carlyle's Re-Creative
Purpose in The French Revolution
* 6: Michael D. Hurley: John Henry Newman, Thinking Out Into Language
* 7: Valerie Sanders: 'Things Pressing to be said': Harriet Martineau's
Mission to Inform
* 8: Adam Phillips: Emerson and the Impossibilities of Style
* 9: James Williams: Darwin's Theological Virtues
* 10: Dinah Birch: 'Just Proportions': The Material of George Eliot's
Writing
* 11: Marcus Waithe: Ruskin's Style of Thought: Animating
Re-description in the Late Writings
* 12: David Russell: The Idea of Matthew Arnold
* 13: Angela Leighton: Walter Pater's Dream Rhythms
* 14: Philip Davis: Cashing In on William James
* 15: Adrian Poole: Touch-and-go with Robert Louis Stevenson
* 16: Hugh Haughton: Oscar Wilde: Thinking Style
* 17: Catherine Maxwell: Vernon Lee's Handling of Words
* 18: Simon Jarvis: Chesterton and the Superman: Chesterton's
Levitations
* 19: Susan Sellers: Virginia Woolf: Writing and the Ordinary Mind
* 20: Stefan Collini: Vexing the thoughtless: T.S. Eliot's early
criticism
