Luke Davies

Publications

BOOKS

• The Tramp in British Literature, 1850-1950 (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). 340 pp.

ARTICLES

• “György Lukács and the Eighteenth-Century Novel.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 71-2 (2023): 127-144.
• "Representing the Tramp in British Interwar Social Exploration Literature: Frank Jennings, Frank Gray and George Orwell." English Studies 103-6 (2022): 871-898. 
• “Representing the Poor: The Emergence of the ‘Point-of-View’ Mode in Interwar Documentary Film, Mass Observation and the Publications of Victor Gollancz Ltd.” Twentieth-Century Literature 68-1 (2022): 1-24. 
• “‘Progressing Backwards’: Rural Outsider Figures in Richard Jefferies, W.H. Hudson and Edward Thomas.” English Studies 103-10 (2021): 1-25. 
• “Appropriating the Abject: Witchcraft in Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi’s Suspiria (1977) and David Kajganich and Luca Guadagnino’s 2018 Remake.” New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film 18-1&2 (2020): 43-59.

BOOK CHAPTERS

• “Precarious Living in the Films of Ken Loach” in Living with Strangers: Bedsits and Boarding-houses in Modern English Life, Literature and Film (London: Bloomsbury, 2018): 145-160.
• “Degrowth Theory and Kohei Saito: New Directions for Literary and Cultural Criticism” in British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700, ed. John Goodridge (University of London Press, 2024, under contract).
• “Platforming the Poor in 1920s Britain: Habermas, Foucault, and the Politics of Display” in The 1920s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction, ed. Nick Hubble (Bloomsbury, 2024, under contract).

JOURNAL REVIEWS

• “Alistair Robinson’s Victorian Vagrancy: A Cultural History of the Wandering Poor.” Journal of Victorian Culture (2022): Web. 23 May 2022.
• “Consumerism, Waste, and Re-Use.” European Journal of American Studies 2017-2: Web. 1 Aug. 2017.
• “Luke Seaber’s Incognito Social Investigation in British Literature.” George Orwell Society Journal 11 (2016): 30-37.
• “Robert Colls’ George Orwell: English Rebel.” George Orwell Studies 1 (2016): 112-121.