Journal
Steer, P., & Shewry, T. (2024). Uncertain Waters and Irony in Australian Settler Literatures.
Environmental Humanities. 16(2), 351-370 Retrieved from https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/16/2/351/389147/Uncertain-Waters-and-Irony-in-Australian-Settler
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Steer, P. (2023). The culture of erosion: Settler colonialism, geological agency, and New Zealand literature, 1930s–1950s.
Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 58(3), 610-626
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Steer, P. (2021). The Climates of the Victorian Novel: Seasonality, Weather, and Regional Fiction in Britain and Australia.
PMLA. 136(3), 370-385 Retrieved from https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/pmla/article/climates-of-the-victorian-novel-seasonality-weather-and-regional-fiction-in-britain-and-australia/D4D1DA080195FCF381868600F2E229E2
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Steer, P. (2018). The historians, the literary critics, and the Victorian settler empire.
Literature Compass. 15(5)
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Steer, PMC. (2016). Gold and Greater Britain: Jevons, Trollope, and Settler Colonialism.
Victorian Studies. 58(3), 436-463
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Steer, PMC. (2015). The romance of uneven development: Geography, capitalism, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s globalized pacific.
Victorian Literature and Culture. 43(2), 343-356
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Steer, PM. (2012). Figures from the past: Sargeson’s lonely men and the limits of nationalism.
Journal of New Zealand Studies. 13, 34-45 Retrieved from http://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/jnzs/article/view/1187/1115
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Steer, PM. (2011). Forms of Settlement: Colonial Space, Time and Genre from Adventure in New Zealand to The Fossil Pits.
Journal of New Zealand Literature. 28(2), 58-81
[Journal article]Authored by: Steer, P.Steer, P. (2009). Greater Britain and the imperial outpost: The Australasian origins of The Riddle of the Sands (1903).
Victorian Review: an interdisciplinary journal of victorian studies. 35(1), 79-95
[Journal article]Authored by: Steer, P.Steer, P. (2008). National pasts and imperial futures: Temporality, economics and empire in William Morris's News from Nowhere (1890) and Julius Vogel's Anno Domini 2000 (1889).
Utopian Studies. 19(1), 49-72
[Journal article]Authored by: Steer, P.Steer, P. (2007). History (never) repeats: Pakeha identity, novels and the New Zealand wars.
Journal of New Zealand Literature. 25, 114-137
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Book
Steer, P. (2025). A ‘sweet especial rural scene’? Nature, Culture, and Agriculture in the 1870s. In A. Chapman (Ed.)
Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1870s. (pp. 274 - 294). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press
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Steer, P. (2024). Writing the ‘Wooden World’: periodicals and settler environmental knowledge in colonial New Zealand. In D. Finkelstein, D. Johnson, & C. Davis (Eds.)
The Edinburgh Companion to British Colonial Periodicals. (pp. 97 - 111). Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press
[Chapter]Authored by: Steer, P.Steer, P. (2023). Narrating Migration in the Settler Colonies: Recent Climate Fiction in Australia and New Zealand. In C. Stan, & C. Sussman (Eds.)
The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture. (pp. 19 - 35). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan
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Steer, P.(2020).
Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature: Economics and Political Identity in the Networks of Empire. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press
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Hensley, NK., & Steer, P. (Eds.) (2018).
Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire. New York, United States of America: Fordham University Press
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Hensley, NK., & Steer, P. (2018). Introduction: Ecological Formalism; or, Love Among the Ruins. In NK. Hensley, & P. Steer (Eds.)
Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire. (pp. 1 - 17). New York, United States of America: Fordham University Press
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Hensley, NK., & Steer, P. (2018). Signatures of the Carboniferous: The Literary Forms of Coal. In NK. Hensley, & P. Steer (Eds.)
Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire. (pp. 63 - 82). New York, United States of America: Fordham University Press
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Steer, PMC. (2016). Colonial ecologies: Guthrie-Smith’s Tutira and writing the settled environment. In M. Williams (Ed.)
A History of New Zealand Literature. (pp. 85 - 97). New York: Cambridge University Press
[Chapter]Authored by: Steer, P.Steer, P. (2018). Modernism and Māoritanga: Rereading the Cultural Politics of Modernist Appropriation in the bone people. In R. Begam, & MV. Moses (Eds.)
Modernism, Postcolonialism, and Globalism: Anglophone Literature, 1950 to the Present. (pp. 277 - 294). New York, United States of America: Oxford University Press
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Steer, PMC. (2017). On systematic colonization and the culture of settler colonialism: Edward Gibbon Wakefield’s a letter from Sydney (1829). In D. Felluga (Ed.)
BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History. (pp. 1 - 22). online: Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net
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Steer, PMC. (2016). Colonial Gothic. In R. Crane, J. Stafford, & M. Williams (Eds.)
The world novel in English to 1950. (pp. 253 - 267). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press
[Chapter]Authored by: Steer, P.Steer, PMC. (2014). Antipodal home economics: International debt and settler domesticity in Clara Cheesemans a rolling stone. In TS. Wagner (Ed.)
Domestic Fiction in Colonial Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 145 - 160). London, England: Pickering & Chatto
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Conference
Steer, P. (2024, January). A ‘sweet especial rural scene’? Nature, Culture, and Agriculture in the 1870s. Presented at
EVENT 2024. Online.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Steer, P.Steer, P. (2022, March). Deforestation, Colonial Poetry, and Environmental Knowledge: “The Big Kauri, Waiotahi Creek”. Presented at
North American Victorian Studies Association [NAVSA]. Vancouver/Online.
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Steer, P. (2021, November). Not Seeing the Forest for the Tree? Kauri and the Scales of Settler Colonial Environmental Knowledge. Presented at
Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture, Australia–New Zealand [ASLEC-ANZ]
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Steer, P.Steer, P. (2021, August). Scott’s Minstrelsy, the Ballad, and the Work of Settlement. Presented at
Walter Scott in the Settler Colonies
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Steer, P.Steer, P. (2021, December). “The Forest Temples of New Zealand”: Romanticism as Environmental Knowledge in the Settler Public Sphere. Presented at
Romantic Studies Association of Australasia
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Not Seeing the Forest for the Tree? Kauri and the Scales of Settler Colonial Environmental Knowledge. . Online and Wellington, New Zealand and Melbourne, Australia
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Steer, P. (2018, October). The Bad Form of the Australian River: The Production of Environmental Knowledge and Value in Henry Lawson. Presented at
North American Studies Association [NAVSA]
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Steer, P.Steer, PMC. (2017, November). Problems of scale & silence, or, Locating the literary critic in the settler empire. Presented at
Cultural Geographies of the Colonial Southern Hemisphere. Dublin, Ireland.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Steer, P.Steer, PMC. (2017, September). “Was such a change in the seasons credible?": Climate Extremes, Climate Knowledge, and the Victorian Novel. Presented at
Vcologies 2. University of Houston, Texas.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Steer, P.Steer, PMC. (2017, September). Curnow and Environmentalism. Presented at
A Symposium on the Life and Works of Allen Curnow. Auckland University.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Steer, P.Steer, PMC. (2016, November). Colonial bildung and metropolitan sociality: The mark system, urania cottage, and great expectations. Presented at
North American Victorian Studies Assocaition [NAVSA] 2016. Phoenix, Arizona.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Steer, P.Steer, PMC., & Hensley, N. (2016, September). Signatures of the Carboniferous: The Literary Forms of Coal. Presented at
Vcologies. UC, Davis.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Steer, P.Steer, PMC. (2015, July). Ecology and epic in the settler colony. Presented at
North American Victorian Studies Association. Honolulu, Hawai'i.
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Other
Steer, P. (2022, May). “The Forgotten Poetry of the Colonial Environment. Presented at Palmerston North. : University of the Third Age.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Steer, P.Steer, P. (2020).
The forgotten environmental crisis: how 20th century settler writers foreshadowed the Anthropocene. : The Conversation Media Group Ltd
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Steer, P. (2020, November). “This new element of the New Zealand landscape": Erosion and New Zealand literary culture, 1930s-50s.. Presented at School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Steer, P.Steer, P. (2019, November). The Culture of Erosion: Deforestation and New Zealand’s Settler Literature, 1930s-50s. Presented at Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Steer, P.Steer, PMC. (2017).
Reading classic novels in an era of climate change. : The Conversation
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Steer, PMC. (2017).
Bottom of the lake: How the setting for a classic book of New Zealand literature became a toxic swamp. : The Spinoff
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