Yuanyuan Cui, Houliang Chen (2026). Reimagining the “Redundant Woman”: Beavers, Social Agency, and Affective Expression in George Eliot’s
Middlemarch. Women's Studies.DOI
Yuanyuan Cui, Houliang Chen (2026). Between sensation and realism: George Eliot, gender, and the French episode in Middlemarch. Orbis Litterarum.DOI
Houliang Chen, You Zhang (2026). Earnest Hypocrisy: The Evangelical Reformer in William M. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair. Religions.DOI
Houliang Chen (2025). Home Visiting, Domestic Observation, and the Middle-Class Gaze in Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son. Cultural & Social History, Vol. 220, No. 20.DOI
Houliang Chen (2025). “I Can Afford To Despise”: Club Life, Social Interactions, and the Middle-Class Work Ethic in Charles Dickens’s Dombey and Son. Neophilologus: An International Journal of Modern and Mediaeval Language and Literature.DOI
Yiyang Ning, Houliang Chen (2025). “To Buy Him a Pair of Gloves”: Glove Etiquette, Fashion Consumption and the Building of Respectable Images in The Newcomes. TEXTILE.DOI
Houliang Chen, Yuanyuan Cui (2025). The Ethics of Criticism and the (Re)justification of Literary Studies: Voices from China. ANQ. A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews.DOI
Houliang Chen (2025). "I Always Protest Against Being Referred to the Bees": Bee Analogies in Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend. Partial Answers.DOI
Houliang Chen, Shuai Gao (2025). “[T]o Dress So as to Call Forth No Remark at All”: Sartorial Representations of Victorian Gentlemanliness in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations. Fashion Theory.DOI
Houliang Chen, Qianwen Xu (2024). Gender politics and Victorian literary representation of the body: a distant reading of the body in Charles Dickens's works. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, Vol. 11, No. 1.DOI
Houliang Chen (2024). Distressing sons, anxious fathers and worries about the empire in Charles Dickens’s Dombey and Son. Neohelicon.DOI
Houliang Chen (2024). “I Know Well and Appreciate the Repose and Delight to Be Found in Gardening”: Class, Gender, and “Garden Elements” in Charles Dickens’s Dombey and Son. English Studies.DOI
Houliang Chen (2024). Contours of Status and Power: Seats and Sitting Postures in Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend. Anglia. Zeitschrift für englische Philologie.DOI
Houliang Chen, Da-Gin Wu (2023). “[E]xpressly Meant to Promote the Formation of the Domestic Virtues”: Domestic Interiors and Household Furnishings in Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend. Home Cultures.DOI
Houliang Chen (2023). ‘Common people to talk of Mr. Dombey and his domestic affairs!’: the politics of gossip in Dombey and Son. Textual Practice.DOI
Houliang Chen (2023). “To have no work to do [is] strange”: the performance of leisure in Little Dorrit. Nineteenth Century Contexts.DOI
Houliang Chen (2022). “An Index of Gentility”: Representations of Needlework in Dombey and Son. TEXTILE.DOI
Houliang Chen (2022). “Men separate from women and domesticity”: empire builders, coolie laborers, and the imperialist economy in Joseph Conrad’s “Typhoon”. Neohelicon.DOI
Houliang Chen (2018). Seeking an Enlightened perception of being: Charles Johnson’s adoption of Chinese culture in “China”. ANQ A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews.DOI