Graduate Student, English
Pembroke College
Thesis Title: Making Levithans: Parts and Wholes in Long Non-narrative Poems of the Eighteenth Century
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Dr Phil Connell, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
Dr Chris Tilmouth, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge |
About
I am currently in the final year of a PhD in British Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.
My PhD thesis is entitled 'Parts and Wholes in Long Non-Narrative Poems of the Eighteenth Century'. In it I examine early-eighteenth-century understandings of literary length in order to shed new light on the structures of three long non-narrative poems of the period, James Thomson’s 'The Seasons', Mark Akenside’s 'The Pleasures of Imagination' and Edward Young’s 'Night Thoughts'. Considered as case studies, readings of these poems demonstrate the sophistication with which British eighteenth-century writers used
extensive literary structures to represent, explicate and communicate objects and ideas that seemed too vast or complex for comprehensive description or narration.
For my wider research interests and teaching interests, see my 'Research Interests' list.
