Dr Marcus Nevitt

School of English

Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature

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m.nevitt@sheffield.ac.uk
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Dr Marcus Nevitt
School of English
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
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S3 7RA
Profile

I was appointed as a lecturer in Renaissance Literature here at ºù«Ӱҵ in 2002. This was a welcome return home having spent four years at ºù«Ӱҵ some time previously as both PhD student and Teaching Fellow.

In the intervening three years, I taught in the English Literature departments of the University of Hertfordshire and the University of Leeds.

My first book, Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England was a study of the relationships between cheap print and female agency in the English Civil wars. I also research relationships between news and print culture and co-edited with Michael J. Braddick, Seventeenth-Century Journalism and the Digital Age (2017) Since then, I´ve also developed an interest in Restoration theatre and genre, co-authoring, with Tanya Pollard, (Bloomsbury 2019). I’m also one of the contributing editors to the forthcoming CUP edition of the . My next book is a study of Restoration theatre and patronage. I also review regularly for The Spectator.

Research interests

I specialise in seventeenth-century literature. I have written principally on cheap print and my monograph, Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England was published by Ashgate in 2006. I have written articles on Ben Jonson and news writing in the seventeenth century, as well as numerous pieces on interregnum royalism and its connection to Restoration culture.

I am currently working on a study of Restoration theatre patronage.

Publications

Books

  • Nevitt M (2006) Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640-1660. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. RIS download Bibtex download

Edited books

  • Braddick M (Ed.) (2017) Seventeenth-century journalism in the digital age.. RIS download Bibtex download

Journal articles

  • Nevitt M (2024) . Electronic British Library Journal, 2023. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Nevitt MA (2020) Behn's Jonson. Women's Writing. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Braddick MJ & Nevitt M (2017) . Media History, 23(2), 151-158. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Nevitt MA (2017) . Media History, 23(2), 218-240. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Nevitt M (2014) . Prose Studies, 36(3), 185-198. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Nevitt M (2012) . Studies in Philology, 109(4), 496-518. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Nevitt M (2009) . Seventeenth Century, 24(2), 287-304. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Nevitt M (2006) . The Cambridge Quarterly, 35(2), 185-188. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Nevitt M (2006) . Notes and Queries, 53(4), 484-486. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Nevitt MA (2005) Ben Jonson and the Serial Publication of News. News Networks in Seventeenth-Century Britain and Europe, 53-68. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Nevitt MA (2004) Major and the Minors: A Cultural Materialist Reading of 'Julius Caesar'. Shakespeare Criticism, 189-208. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Riede DG, Nevitt M, Brückner M, Carey Eldred J & Tannenbaum L (2002) . Prose Studies, 25(2), 122-136. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Nevitt MA (2002) Elizabeth Poole Writes the Regicide. Women's Writing 9 (2), 233-248. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Owen S & Nevitt M (2000) Women playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland 1660-1823. SCRIBLERIAN AND THE KIT-CATS, 32(2), 354-356. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Nevitt MA (1999) 'Blessed, Self-Denying, Lambe-Like'? The Fifth Monarchist Women. Critical Survey 11:1, 83-97. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Nevitt M (1998) . Prose Studies, 21(2), 84-108. RIS download Bibtex download

Chapters

  • Nevitt M (2024) , The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing (pp. 1-3). Springer International Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Nevitt MA (2014) Ballads and the Development of the English Newsbook In Conboy M & Steel J (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to British Media History Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Nevitt MA (2013) Thomas Killigrew's 'Thomaso' as Two-Part Comedy In Major P (Ed.), Thomas Killigrew and the Seventeenth-Century English Stage Ashgate RIS download Bibtex download
  • Nevitt M (2013) , News, Newspapers and Society in Early Modern Britain (pp. 84-108). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Nevitt MA (2010) Shakespeare for Royalists: John Quarles and 'The Rape of Lucrece' (1655) In McElligott J & Smith DL (Ed.), Royalists and Royalism During the Interregnum Manchester University Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • () Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Nevitt MA () Milton's Sonnet XIV and the Poetry of George Thomason In Mandelbrote G & Peacey J (Ed.), Collecting Revolution British Library RIS download Bibtex download

Book reviews

  • Nevitt M (2018) . The Seventeenth Century, 33(5), 618-620. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Nevitt M (2014) . The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 65(1), 207-208. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Nevitt M (2013) . Renaissance Quarterly, 66(1), 270-271. RIS download Bibtex download

Conference proceedings papers

  • Nevitt M (2004) John Selden among the Quakers: Antifeminism and the Seventeenth-Century Tithes Controversy. LITERATURE, POLITICS AND LAW IN RENAISSANCE ENGLAND (pp 189-208) RIS download Bibtex download
Research group

I welcome applications from potential research students in all of my research areas.

Grants

AHRC Speculative Research Grant £200,000 for ‘Participating in Search Design: A Study of George Thomason’s Newsbooks’: 

HEIF 4 Grant, £10,000 (for pilot project with Derbyshire Record Office: ‘Accessing the Regional Archive: The Wheatcroft MSS’)

Teaching activities

I teach on the following modules:

  • LIT107 - Introduction to Advanced Literary Studies 1
  • LIT2000 - Genre
  • LIT234 - Renaissance Poetry and Prose
  • LIT207 - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature.
  • LIT3028/ LIT6008 - Writing the English Civil War (undergraduate and MA modules)