Newcastle University

Qualifications

BA, M.A., D.Phil.(Oxon), Cert.Ed.

Research Interests

Nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, in particular the intersection of religion and literature and the adaptation of novels to screen. Special interest in George Eliot, Robert Browning, John Henry Newman, Thomas Hardy, D.H.Lawrence and T.S.Eliot.

Current Work

My fictional memoir of the Brownings, entitled The Browning Papers, is coming out with Olympia Publishers in April 2012. I am currently working on a novel provisionally entitled Risking Faith which places the development of the leading characters against the background of more public religious events of the last fifty years.

Esteem Indicators

I have served on the Peer Review College of the AHRC and currently sit on two Advisory Editorial Boards: for Literature and Theology and for George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies. I was elected a fellow of the English Association in 2000.

• Wright TR. Hardy and His Readers. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
• Wright TR. The Genesis of Fiction: Modern Novelists as Biblical Interpreters. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
• Wright TR, ed. Thomas Hardy on Screen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
• Wright TR. Religion and Literature from the Modern to the Postmodern: Scott, Steiner and Detweiler. Literature and Theology 2005, 19(1), 3-21.
• Wright TR. Rewriting Genesis: The Nineteenth-Century Roots of D.H. Lawrence’s Religion. In: Woodhead, Linda, ed. Reinventing Christianity: Nineteenth-Century Contexts. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001, pp.119-127.
• Wright TR. The Victorians. In: Hass, A; Jasper, D; Jay, E, ed. The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp.148-163.
• Wright TR. Film Adaptation: The Case of Wuthering Heights. In: Maunder, A; Phegley, J, ed. Teaching Nineteenth-Century Fiction. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp.168-182.
• Wright TR. George Eliot. York: University of York, 2010. Interactive CD Rom.
• Wright TR. D. H. Lawrence. In: Christopher Rowland, Christine Joynes, Rebecca Lemon, Emma Mason and Jonathan Roberts, ed. The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in Literature. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, pp.650-662.
• Wright TR. Hardy's Heirs: D. H. Lawrence and John Cowper Powys. In: Keith Wilson, ed. A Companion to Thomas Hardy. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, pp.465-478.
• Wright TR. The English Cult of Literature: Devoted Readers, 1774-1880. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 2009, 32(2), 272-274.
• Wright TR. 'Identifying the remains': George Eliot's death in the London religious press. By K. K. Collins. Modern Language Review 2008, 103(3), 834-835.
• Wright TR. D.H. Lawrence and the Bible. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
• Wright TR. Review of: Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature: An Introduction, by Mark Knight and Emma Mason. Literature and Theology 2008, 22(1), 125-126.
• Wright TR. The Religion of Humanity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
• Wright TR. D.H. Lawrence's language of sacred experience: the transfiguration of the reader. Religion and Literature 2007, 39(1), 126-129.
• Wright TR. Lawrence in Eden: From "The Trespasser" to "Lady Chatterley's Lover". Etudes Lawrenciennes 2007, 35, 9-28.
• Wright TR. Hardy the Heretic and 'Jude the Obscure': Reciting the Bible, Reforming the Church and Refiguring Jesus. In: Andrew Dix and Jonathan Taylor, ed. Figures of Heresy: Radical Theology in English and American Literature, 1830-2000. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2006, pp.72-89.
• Wright TR. Holiness in the modern world: Durkheim, Otto, Bataille and Lawrence. In: Visser I; Wilcox H, ed. Transforming Holiness: Representations of Holiness in English and American Literary Texts. Leuven: Peeters, 2006, pp.161-179.
• Wright TR. The Word in the Novel: Bakhtin on Tolstoy and the Bible. In: Knight M; Woodman T, ed. Biblical Religion and the Novel, 1700-2000. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, pp.25-38.
• Wright TR. Von der Moderne zur Postmoderne: Internationale Entwicklungslinien von 'Literatur und Theologie. In: Garhammer E; Langenhorst G, ed. Schreiben ist Totenerweckung: Theologie und Literatur. Wurzburg: Echter Verlag, 2005, pp.70-98.
• Wright TR. The Writings in the Church: T.S. Eliot, Ecclesiastes and the Four Quartets. In: John Schad, ed. Writing the Bodies of Christ: the Church from Carlyle to Derrida. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001, pp.25-39.
• Wright TR. D.H. Lawrence and the Bible. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• Wright TR. Intertextuality between the Bible and Later Literature: The Case of D.H. Lawrence. In: Fabiny, Tibor, ed. The Bible in Literature and Literature in the Bible. Zurich: Pano Verlag, 2000, pp.93-116.
• Wright TR. Midrash and Intertextuality: Ancient Rabbinic Exegesis and Postmodern Reading of the Bible. In: Hawley, John, ed. Divine Aporia: Postmodern Conversations About the Other. Lewisburg, Philadelphia: Bucknell University Press, 2000, pp.97-119.
• Wright TR. Newman on the Bible: A Via Media to Postmodernity?. In: Merrigan, T and Ker, IT, ed. Newman and the Word. Louvain: Peeters, 2000, pp.211-249.
• Wright TR. Re-reading the Rabbis, Rewriting Scripture: Three Theoretical Approaches to Midrash and Literature. Religion and the Arts 2000, 4(3), 388-400.
• Wright TR. Reprint of 1984 article on "Middlemarch as a Religious Novel". In: Hornback, Bert G, ed. Middlemarch: an Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Criticism. 2000, pp.640-649.
• Wright TR. Tess Is a Victim of Men. In: Szumski, Bonnie, ed. Readings on Tess of the D'Urbervilles. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2000, pp.28-41.
• Wright TR. East of Eden as Western Midrash: Steinbeck's Re-Marking of Cain. Religion and the Arts 1999, 2(4), 488-518.
• Wright TR. Lawrence and Bataille: Recovering the Sacred, Re-membering Jesus. Literature and Theology 1999, 13(1), 46-75.
• Wright TR. On Resisting Fishy Models of Reading. In: Gearon, Liam, ed. English Literature, Theology, and the Curriculum. London: Cassell, 1999, pp.27-34.
• Wright TR. Midrash and the Genesis of Modern Fiction: Wiesel, Steinbeck and the Remarkable Cain. In: Bodendorfer, G; Millard, M, ed. Bibel und Midrasch: zur Bedeutung der rabbinischen Exegese für die Bibelwissenschaft. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1998, pp.235-262.
• Wright TR. 'Behind the Curtain': Derrida and the Religious Imagination. In: Hawley, John C, ed. Through a Glass Darkly: Essays in the Religious Imagination. New York: Fordham University Press, 1996, pp.276-295.
• Wright TR. Reader-Response under Review: Art, Game or Chance?. Style 1995, 29, 529-548.
• Wright TR. Middlemarch on TV: A Symposium. George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Studies 1994, 27, 77-81.
• Wright TR. The Letter and the Spirit: Deconstructing Renan's Life of Jesus and the Assumptions of Modernity. Religion and Literature 1994, 26(2), 55-71.
• Wright TR. Through a Glass Darkly: Derrida, Literature, and the Specter of Christianity. Christianity and Literature 1994, 44(1), 73-92.
• Wright TR. Reading and Reviewing in a Postmodern Age. George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Newsletter 1993, 23, 103-105.
• Wright TR. Overcoming the Resistance to Theory, or de Man Who Taught Old Dogs New Tricks Critical. Survey 1992, 4, 282-290.
• Wright TR, ed. George Eliot's "Middlemarch". London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991.
• Wright TR. Margaret Atwood and St. Mark: The Shape of the Gaps. In: Detweiler, Robert and Doty, William G, ed. The Daemonic Imagination: Biblical Text and Secular Story. Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 1991, pp.181-190.
• Wright TR. Newman on Literature: 'Thinking out into Language'. Literature and Theology 1991, 5(2), 181-197.
• Wright TR. Hardy and the Erotic. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989.
• Jasper D, Wright TR, ed. The Critical Spirit and the Will to Believe: Essays in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Religion. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989.
• Wright TR. Theology and Literature. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988.
• Wright TR. Comte's Madonna and George Eliot: The Humanisation of a Symbol. In: Groupe de Recherche literature et religion dans les pays de langue anglaise (Université de Paris-Nord), ed. Le symbole religieux et l'imaginaire dans la littérature anglaise. Paris: Université Paris-Nord, 1987, pp.265-274.
• Wright TR. Religion and Literature: The Role of the Critic. Religion and Intellectual Life 1987, 4, 101-111.
• Wright TR. The Religion of Humanity: The Impact of Comtean Positivism on Victorian Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
• Wright TR. Frederic Harrison and 'That Epicene Woman'. George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Newsletter 1985, 7, 11-13.
• Wright TR. Marius the Epicurean and the Church for the Modern Mind. Heythrop Journal 1985, 26(1), 26-40.
• Wright TR. Regenerating Narrative: The Gospels as Fiction. Religious Studies 1984, 20(3), 389-400.
• Wright TR. George Gissing: Positivist in the Dawn. Gissing Newsletter 1984, 20(2), 1-20.
• Wright TR. Middlemarch as a Religious Novel, or Life Without God. In: Jasper, David, ed. Images of Belief in Literature. London: Macmillan, 1984, pp.138-152.
• Wright TR. Deronda's Critical Phallus. George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Newsletter 1983, 3, 6-8.
• Wright TR, ed. John Henry Newman: A Man for Our Time?. Newcastle upon Tyne: Grevatt and Grevatt, 1983.
• Wright TR. Positively Catholic: Malcolm Quin's Church of Humanity in Newcastle upon Tyne. Durham University Journal 1983, 75, 11-20.
• Wright TR. From Bumps to Morals: The Phrenological Background to George Eliot's Moral Framework. Review of English Studies 1982, 33, 34-46.
• Wright TR. The Correspondence of Lewes and Comte: A Brief but Positive Encounter. George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Newsletter 1982, 2, 3-6.
• Wright TR. George Eliot and Positivism: A Reassessment. Modern Language Review 1981, 76(2), 257-272.
• Wright TR. Critical Approaches to George Eliot. In: Smith, Anne, ed. George Eliot: Centenary Essays and an Unpublished Fragment. London: Vision, 1980, pp.21-23.
• Wright TR. George Eliot's Place in Westminster Abbey. George Eliot Fellowship Review 1980, 11, 20-24.
• Wright TR. Philip and Faith: A Tale of Development. London: New Generation Publishing, 2012.
• Wright TR. The Browning Papers. London: Olympia Publishers, 2012.
• Wright TR. "D.H. Lawrence and the Bible" (Reply to Lucy Beckett). TLS-The Times Literary Supplement 2001, (5106), 17-17.