John Barrell
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John Barrell FBA
, FEA
(born 3 February 1943) is a British scholar of eighteenth and early nineteenth century studies and is currently Professor of English at the University of York
. He took his first degree at Trinity College Cambridge, and his PhD at the University of Essex. He was a lecturer in the Department of Literature at Essex for four years from 1968. In 1972 he took up a lectureship in the Faculty of English at Cambridge and a fellowship at King's College Cambridge. He was appointed to a chair in English at the University of Sussex in 1985 and became Professor of English at York in 1993. He has held a British Academy Readership and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, and has been awarded honorary degrees by the University of Chicago
(2008) and by the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London (2010).
, theories of society and progress, and the theory of painting. At present (2011) he is writing a book on the Welsh artist and writer Edward Pugh (1763-1813), to be published by the University of Wales Press in 2013.
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, FEA
FEA
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(born 3 February 1943) is a British scholar of eighteenth and early nineteenth century studies and is currently Professor of English at the University of York
University of York
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. He took his first degree at Trinity College Cambridge, and his PhD at the University of Essex. He was a lecturer in the Department of Literature at Essex for four years from 1968. In 1972 he took up a lectureship in the Faculty of English at Cambridge and a fellowship at King's College Cambridge. He was appointed to a chair in English at the University of Sussex in 1985 and became Professor of English at York in 1993. He has held a British Academy Readership and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, and has been awarded honorary degrees by the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
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(2008) and by the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London (2010).
Research
Barrell's main research is within the field of literature, history and art in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Britain. This focuses particularly on language, landscape, law, empireBritish Empire
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, theories of society and progress, and the theory of painting. At present (2011) he is writing a book on the Welsh artist and writer Edward Pugh (1763-1813), to be published by the University of Wales Press in 2013.
Books by John Barrell
- The Idea of Landscape and the Sense of Place 1730-1840: An Approach to the Poetry of John Clare (Cambridge University Press, 1972)
- The Dark Side of the Landscape: the Rural Poor in English Painting, 1730-1840 (Cambridge University Press, 1980)
- English Literature in History 1730-1780: An Equal, Wide Survey (Hutchinson and St Martin's, 1983)
- The Political Theory of Painting from Reynolds to Hazlitt: The Body of the Public (Yale University Press, 1986)
- Poetry, Language and Politics (Manchester University Press, 1988)
- The Infection of Thomas De Quincey: A Psychopathology of Imperialism (Yale University Press, 1992)
- The Birth of Pandora and the Division of Knowledge (Macmillan and University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992)
- Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide 1793-1796 (Oxford University Press, 2000)
- The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s (Oxford University Press, 2006)
Books edited by John Barrell
- S.T. Coleridge, On the Constitution of the Church and State According to the Idea of Each (Everyman, 1972)
- The Penguin Book of Pastoral Verse, edited with John Bull (Allen Lane, 1972)
- Painting and the Politics of Culture: New Essays on British Art 1700-1850 (Oxford University Press, 1992)
- Exhibition Extraordinary!! Radical Broadsides of the Mid 1790s (Trent Editions, 2001)
- Trials for Treason and Sedition 1792-1794, co-edited with Jon Mee, 8 vols (Pickering and Chatto, 2006, 2007)
- The Political Writings of William Fox, co-edited with Timothy Whelan (Trent Editions, 2011)