George Eliot and the Classics Hurst, Isobel. 2025. George Eliot and the Classics. In: Juliette Atkinson and Elisha Cohn, eds. The Oxford Handbook of George Eliot. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 113-128. ISBN 9780192856593
Long Ago and Sapphic Poetics Hurst, Isobel. 2025. Long Ago and Sapphic Poetics. In: Sarah Parker, ed. Michael Field in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 135-143. ISBN 9781009382625
Classical Antiquity Hurst, Isobel. 2024. Classical Antiquity. In: Lisa Rodensky, ed. Oxford Bibliographies in Victorian Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199799558
The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in the Victorian Period Hurst, Isobel. 2021. The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in the Victorian Period. In: Paula Rabinowitz, ed. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190201098
Monologue and Dialogue: The Odyssey in Contemporary Women’s Poetry Hurst, Isobel. 2019. Monologue and Dialogue: The Odyssey in Contemporary Women’s Poetry. In: Fiona Cox and Elena Theodorakopoulos, eds. Homer's Daughters. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 177-192. ISBN 9780198802587
Plutarch and the Victorians Hurst, Isobel. 2019. Plutarch and the Victorians. In: Sophia Xenophontos and Katerina Oikonomopoulou, eds. Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plutarch. Leiden: Brill, pp. 564-572. ISBN 9789004409446
Nineteenth-Century Literary and Artistic Responses to Roman Decadence Hurst, Isobel. 2019. Nineteenth-Century Literary and Artistic Responses to Roman Decadence. In: Jane H. Desmarais and David Weir, eds. Decadence and Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 47-65. ISBN 9781108426244
Classics in Education after 1880 Hurst, Isobel. 2019. Classics in Education after 1880. In: Kenneth Haynes, ed. The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: Volume 5: After 1880. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 23-41. ISBN 9780199585106
From Epic to Monologue: Tennyson and Homer Hurst, Isobel. 2018. From Epic to Monologue: Tennyson and Homer. In: Silvio Bär and Emily Hauser, eds. Reading Poetry, Writing Genre: English Poetry and Literary Criticism in Dialogue with Classical Scholarship. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 117-137. ISBN 9781350039322
'Tragedy in the disguise of mirth': Robert Browning, George Eliot and Wilde Hurst, Isobel. 2017. 'Tragedy in the disguise of mirth': Robert Browning, George Eliot and Wilde. In: Kathleen Riley; Alastair J. L. Blanshard and Iarla Manny, eds. Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 127-140. ISBN 9780198789260
Pater as Professional Classicist Hurst, Isobel. 2017. Pater as Professional Classicist. In: Charles Martindale; Stefano Evangelista and Elizabeth Prettejohn, eds. Pater the Classicist: Classical Scholarship, Reception, and Aestheticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 33-46. ISBN 9780198723417
Freedom to Invent: Graves’s Iconoclastic Approach to Antiquity Hurst, Isobel. 2015. Freedom to Invent: Graves’s Iconoclastic Approach to Antiquity. In: Alisdair Gibson, ed. Robert Graves and the Classical Tradition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 201-220. ISBN 9780198738053
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Hurst, Isobel. 2015. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In: Norman Vance and Jennifer Wallace, eds. Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, Vol. 4: 1790-1880. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 449-470. ISBN 9780198859222
Arthur Hugh Clough Hurst, Isobel. 2015. Arthur Hugh Clough. In: Norman Vance and Jennifer Wallace, eds. Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, Vol. 4: 1780-1880. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 495-508. ISBN 978-0199594603
Victorian Poetry and the Classics Hurst, Isobel. 2013. Victorian Poetry and the Classics. In: Matthew Bevis, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 149-165. ISBN 978-0-19-957646-3
'We’ll all be Penelopes then': Art and Domesticity in American Women’s Poetry, 1958-1996 Hurst, Isobel. 2009. 'We’ll all be Penelopes then': Art and Domesticity in American Women’s Poetry, 1958-1996. In: S. J. Harrison, ed. Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 275-294. ISBN 978 0 19 923373 1
'Reanimating the Romans: Mary Shelley's Response to Roman Ruins' Hurst, Isobel. 2007. 'Reanimating the Romans: Mary Shelley's Response to Roman Ruins'. In: Richard Wrigley, ed. Regarding Romantic Rome. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 125-136. ISBN 978-3-03911-120-6
'The Feminine of Homer': Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Casa Guidi Windows Hurst, Isobel. 2005. 'The Feminine of Homer': Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Casa Guidi Windows. In: Rachel Langford, ed. Depicting desire : gender, sexuality and the family in nineteenth century Europe : literary and artistic perspectives. 21 Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 181-196. ISBN 978-3-03910-321-8