Recent Publications

Recent Publications - Dr. Shawn Malley

Monograph

From Archaeology to Spectacle in Victorian Britain: The Case of Assyria, 1845-1854 (Ashgate Press, 2012).

Book Chapters

“Three Traces.” Exhibition Catalogue for Wandering in Secret Storms (Bishop’s University Press, 2012).

“Layard Enterprise: Victorian Archaeology and Informal Imperialism in Mesopotamia.” Reprint in Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914 (SALT, 2011).  Translated into Turkish and Arabic.

“Disturbing Hellenism: Walter Pater, Charles Newton, and the Myth of Demeter and Persephone.” Walter Pater: The Transparencies of Desire (ELT Press, 2001).

Articles

“’Does all this have to happen again?’ Excavating Heritage in Battlestar Galactica.”  Science Fiction Film and Television 6.1 (forthcoming 2013).

“Battling Babylon: The Archaeology-Military Complex in Stargate and Stargate SG-1.”  Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture (forthcoming 2013).

“Nineveh 1851: An Archaeography.”  Journal of Science and Literature 5.1 (2012).

“Archaeology as WMD.”  International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 9.2 (2012).

“Layard Enterprise: Victorian Archaeology and Informal Imperialism in Mesopotamia.”  International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 40 (2008).

“Theatre/Archaeology: Performing Material History in Charles Kean’s Sardanapalus, 1853.”  Nineteenth Century Studies 21 (2007).

“Shipping the Bull: Staging Nineveh in the British Museum, 1849-1854.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 26 (2004).

“Walter Scott’s Romantic Archaeology: New/Old Abbotsford and The Antiquary.” Studies in Romanticism 40 (2001).

“Austin Henry Layard and the Periodical Press: Middle Eastern Archaeology and the Excavation of Cultural Identity in Mid-Nineteenth Century Britain.” Victorian Review 22 (1997).

“ʻTime Hath No Power Against Identity’: Historical Continuity and Archaeological Adventure in H. Rider Haggard’s She.” English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 40 (1997).

“ʻThe Listening Look’: Visual and Verbal Metaphor in Frederic Leighton’s Illustrations to George Eliot’s Romola.”  Nineteenth-Century Contexts 19 (1996).  Reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism 120 (2003).

“Nostalgia and the Travel Writer as Last Survivor.”  English Studies in Canada 20 (1994).

“Walter Pater’s Heroic Nostos: The Underworld Journey in The Renaissance.”  Nineteenth-Century Prose 21 (1994).