James O'Neill and Maggie O'Neill Unreviewed (LLM_ASSISTED)
James O'Neill's work on the HP spans authorship studies and narratological analysis. His Durham thesis examines self-transformation in the HP's narrative structure, while his co-authored study with Maggie O'Neill surveys the full range of authorship candidates. O'Neill argues that future research should use narratological analysis rather than archival evidence alone to address the authorship question, shifting the debate from external biographical evidence to internal literary form.
Works in Archive
Walking in the Boboli Gardens in Florence: Toward a Transdisciplinary, Visual, Cultural, and Constellational Analysis
O'Neill and O'Neill propose walking as a transdisciplinary research methodology, using a collaborative walk through the Boboli Gardens in Florence as a way of engaging bodily and sensorially with the HP's garden spaces. Drawing on constellational thinking and phenomenological method, they argue that physical walking through a Renaissance garden can unsettle dominant historical narratives and produce new insights into the HP's treatment of gender, identity, and spatial experience. This represents an experimental methodological contribution bridging art history, sociology, and embodied practice.
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