Simon Edwards

 

Job Title: Principal Lecturer Telephone: +44 (0)20 8392 3633

Room:Fincham 106
Office Hours: Mondays and Thursdays, 12.00 -13.30; Wednesdays 13.00-14.00. At other times by appointment.

My main academic interests are in 18c and 19c fiction: the Historical Novel (Scott and Cooper) and romantic nationalism in Europe; Charles Dickens; representations of the city in English, American and European writing in relation to sexuality and ethnic identity; Dryden in relation to baroque art and architecture.

I have taught and lectured at universities in Albania,Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Poland, Romania, Sweden, and the United States.

I have published essays on Dryden,Scott, Dickens, Cooper and a number of other European novelists of the nineteenth century.

Most recent conference papers include:
'Scott's Mistress of Pain: The Talisman and Sacher Masoch' at Konstanz University, July 2003
'Body Clocks: Time, Motion and Memory in Northanger Abbey' at Exeter University, July 2004

Publications

(2003) Walter Scott: Old Mortality and the Future of Terror, Triade 8. Ecosse des highlands: Mythes et Realite, Brest, pp. 36-48.

(2002) Review of 'Romanticism, Aesthetics and Nationalism', David Aram Kaiser (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1999) , Modern Philology, 100, No.2, pp 297-300.

(2001) Dryden's Baroque: Nature, Power and Utopia, Dryden and the World of Neoclassicism, Tubingen 2001, Eds. W.Gortshacher and H Klein, pp.207-218.

(2001) The Geography of Violence: Historical Fiction and the National Question, Novel: a Forum on Fiction, Brown University, Providence RI, 34:2, pp293-308.