Dr Rob Gossedge
BA, MA, PhD (Wales)
Dean of Undergraduate Studies for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Senior Lecturer
- GossedgeRA@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 29208 75618
- John Percival Building, Room 2.14, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
Overview
My research focusses on English Literature.
Publication
2019
- Gossedge, R. 2019. Malory in wartime Britain. In: Leitch, M. G. and Rushton, C. J. eds. A New Companion to Malory. Athurian Studies Vol. 87. D.S.Brewer
2017
- Gossedge, R. A. 2017. Robin Hood and the matter of the Greenwood. In: Echard, S. and Rouse, R. eds. The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain. Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature Wiley-Blackwell
- Gossedge, R. A. 2017. King Arthur: literary figure. In: Echard, S. and Rouse, R. eds. The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain. Wiley–Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature Wiley-Blackwell
2016
- Morra, I. and Gossedge, R. eds. 2016. The New Elizabethan Age: culture, society and national identity after WWII. London: I.B. Tauris.
- Gossedge, R. A. 2016. Dreaming the Commonwealth: Arthurian myth and Byzantine history. In: Morra, I. and Gossedge, R. A. eds. The New Elizabethan Age: Culture, Society and National Identity after World War II. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 134-157.
- Gossedge, R. A. 2016. Wales and the Crown: Coronation, Investiture and Jubilee, 1953-2012. In: Morra, I. and Gossedge, R. A. eds. The New Elizabethan Age: Culture, Society and National Identity after World War II. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 68-94.
- Gossedge, R. A. 2016. David Jones (1895-1974). In: Ross, S. ed. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Routledge, (10.4324/9781135000356-REM102-1)
- Gossedge, R. A. 2016. Arthurian literary production in Britain, 1800-2000. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- Morra, I. and Gossedge, R. A. 2016. Introduction. In: Morra, I. and Gossedge, R. A. eds. The New Elizabethan Age: Culture, Society and National Identity after WWII. I.B. Tauris, pp. 1-13.
2015
- Gossedge, R. 2015. The consolations and conflicts of history: Chaucer's Monk's Tale. In: Fannon, B. ed. Medieval English LIterature. New Casebooks Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 95-111.
2014
- Gossedge, R. A. 2014. We are Robin Hood?: The outlaw tradition in contemporary popular culture. In: Ashton, G. ed. Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture. London: Bloomsbury
2013
- Gossedge, R. A. 2013. "The man who was on the field": David Jones and the matter of France. Journal of War and Culture Studies 6(3)
2012
- Gossedge, R. A. 2012. Thomas Love Peacock, Robin Hood, and the enclosure of Windsor Forest. In: Knight, S. T. ed. Robin Hood in Greenwood Stood: Alterity and Context in the English Outlaw Tradition. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 135-164.
- Gossedge, R. A. 2012. The Sword in the Stone: American translation and Disney's anti-medievalisms. In: Pugh, T. and Aronstein, S. L. eds. The Disney Middle Ages: A Fairy-tale and Fantasy Past. The New Middle Ages Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 115-132.
2011
- Gossedge, R. A. 2011. The Twentieth-Century Catholic revival in literature. [DVD-ROM]. The English Parish Church through the Centuries, ed. Dee Dyas 9 December 2023.
2009
- Gossedge, R. A. 2009. Tales of the Boneddigion: Nigel Heseltine's gentry context. In: Gramich, K. ed. Almanac: Yearbook of Welsh Writing in English., Vol. 13. Cardigan: Parthian, pp. 55-80.
- Gossedge, R. A. and Knight, S. T. 2009. The King Arthur of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. In: Archibald, E. and Putter, A. eds. The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend. Cambridge Companions to Literature Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 103-119.
2007
- Gossedge, R. A. 2007. "Old order changeth": Arthurian literary production from Tennyson to White. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
2006
- Gossedge, R. A. 2006. Thomas Love Peacock's "The Misfortunes of Elphin" and the Romantic Arthur. Arthurian Literature XXIII, pp. 157-176.
- Gossedge, R. A. 2006. Dorothy Edwards. In: Hammill, F., Miskimmin, E. and Sponenberg, A. eds. The Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing 1900-1950. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 79.
- Gossedge, R. 2006. Margiad Evans. In: Hammill, F., Miskimmin, E. and Sponenberg, A. eds. The Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing 1900-1950. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 84-85.
- Gossedge, R. A. 2006. Kate Roberts. In: Hammill, F., Miskimmin, E. and Sponenberg, A. eds. The Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing 1900-1950. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 206-208.
- Gossedge, R. A. 2006. Lynette Roberts. In: Hammill, F., Miskimmin, E. and Sponenberg, A. eds. The Encyclopedia of British Women?s Writing 1900-1950. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 208.
- Gossedge, R. A. 2006. May Sinclair. In: Hammill, F., Miskimmin, E. and Sponenberg, A. eds. The Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing 1900-1950. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 223-224.
- Gossedge, R. A. 2006. Welsh language writing. In: Hammill, F., MIskimmin, E. and Sponenberg, A. eds. The Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing 1900-1950. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 273-275.
Articles
- Gossedge, R. A. 2013. "The man who was on the field": David Jones and the matter of France. Journal of War and Culture Studies 6(3)
- Gossedge, R. A. 2006. Thomas Love Peacock's "The Misfortunes of Elphin" and the Romantic Arthur. Arthurian Literature XXIII, pp. 157-176.
Audio
- Gossedge, R. A. 2011. The Twentieth-Century Catholic revival in literature. [DVD-ROM]. The English Parish Church through the Centuries, ed. Dee Dyas 9 December 2023.
Book sections
- Gossedge, R. 2019. Malory in wartime Britain. In: Leitch, M. G. and Rushton, C. J. eds. A New Companion to Malory. Athurian Studies Vol. 87. D.S.Brewer
- Gossedge, R. A. 2017. Robin Hood and the matter of the Greenwood. In: Echard, S. and Rouse, R. eds. The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain. Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature Wiley-Blackwell
- Gossedge, R. A. 2017. King Arthur: literary figure. In: Echard, S. and Rouse, R. eds. The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain. Wiley–Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature Wiley-Blackwell
- Gossedge, R. A. 2016. Dreaming the Commonwealth: Arthurian myth and Byzantine history. In: Morra, I. and Gossedge, R. A. eds. The New Elizabethan Age: Culture, Society and National Identity after World War II. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 134-157.
- Gossedge, R. A. 2016. Wales and the Crown: Coronation, Investiture and Jubilee, 1953-2012. In: Morra, I. and Gossedge, R. A. eds. The New Elizabethan Age: Culture, Society and National Identity after World War II. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 68-94.
- Gossedge, R. A. 2016. David Jones (1895-1974). In: Ross, S. ed. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Routledge, (10.4324/9781135000356-REM102-1)
- Morra, I. and Gossedge, R. A. 2016. Introduction. In: Morra, I. and Gossedge, R. A. eds. The New Elizabethan Age: Culture, Society and National Identity after WWII. I.B. Tauris, pp. 1-13.
- Gossedge, R. 2015. The consolations and conflicts of history: Chaucer's Monk's Tale. In: Fannon, B. ed. Medieval English LIterature. New Casebooks Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 95-111.
- Gossedge, R. A. 2014. We are Robin Hood?: The outlaw tradition in contemporary popular culture. In: Ashton, G. ed. Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture. London: Bloomsbury
- Gossedge, R. A. 2012. Thomas Love Peacock, Robin Hood, and the enclosure of Windsor Forest. In: Knight, S. T. ed. Robin Hood in Greenwood Stood: Alterity and Context in the English Outlaw Tradition. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 135-164.
- Gossedge, R. A. 2012. The Sword in the Stone: American translation and Disney's anti-medievalisms. In: Pugh, T. and Aronstein, S. L. eds. The Disney Middle Ages: A Fairy-tale and Fantasy Past. The New Middle Ages Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 115-132.
- Gossedge, R. A. 2009. Tales of the Boneddigion: Nigel Heseltine's gentry context. In: Gramich, K. ed. Almanac: Yearbook of Welsh Writing in English., Vol. 13. Cardigan: Parthian, pp. 55-80.
- Gossedge, R. A. and Knight, S. T. 2009. The King Arthur of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. In: Archibald, E. and Putter, A. eds. The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend. Cambridge Companions to Literature Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 103-119.
- Gossedge, R. A. 2006. Dorothy Edwards. In: Hammill, F., Miskimmin, E. and Sponenberg, A. eds. The Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing 1900-1950. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 79.
- Gossedge, R. 2006. Margiad Evans. In: Hammill, F., Miskimmin, E. and Sponenberg, A. eds. The Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing 1900-1950. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 84-85.
- Gossedge, R. A. 2006. Kate Roberts. In: Hammill, F., Miskimmin, E. and Sponenberg, A. eds. The Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing 1900-1950. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 206-208.
- Gossedge, R. A. 2006. Lynette Roberts. In: Hammill, F., Miskimmin, E. and Sponenberg, A. eds. The Encyclopedia of British Women?s Writing 1900-1950. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 208.
- Gossedge, R. A. 2006. May Sinclair. In: Hammill, F., Miskimmin, E. and Sponenberg, A. eds. The Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing 1900-1950. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 223-224.
- Gossedge, R. A. 2006. Welsh language writing. In: Hammill, F., MIskimmin, E. and Sponenberg, A. eds. The Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing 1900-1950. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 273-275.
Books
- Morra, I. and Gossedge, R. eds. 2016. The New Elizabethan Age: culture, society and national identity after WWII. London: I.B. Tauris.
- Gossedge, R. A. 2016. Arthurian literary production in Britain, 1800-2000. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Thesis
- Gossedge, R. A. 2007. "Old order changeth": Arthurian literary production from Tennyson to White. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Research
I am currently revising my thesis on nineteenth- and twentieth-century retellings of the Arthurian story for book publication. It is the first sustained account of modern Arthuriana to concentrate wholly on English, Welsh, Cornish and Scottish rewritings of the legend, and it pays particular attention to the role scholarship plays in determining the meaning of the medieval in the modern world.
My next research project is a study of American medievalism: a monograph on the relationship between American culture and the literature of the Middle Ages.
Research interests
- Arthurian legend
- Robin Hood
- formations of British and American medievalism from the eighteenth century to the present
- myth and modernism (especially the use of medieval culture in modernist writing)
- Celticism and Britishness
- Welsh writing in English
- Evelyn Waugh and his contemporaries
Teaching
I am interested in a wide range of medieval and modern topics, from Robin Hood to D.H. Lawrence and I teach a number of modules on the undergraduate BA English Literature: The Robin Hood Tradition, Myth and Modernism and Late Medieval Literature, as well as contributing to the King Arthur in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries component for the MA English Literature.