Keynote Lectures, 2016
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JOHN
WILLIAMS
John Williams read English and History at
the University of York, where his DPhil, a comparative study of Wordsworth and
Blake in the context of British Radicalism 1780-1820, was supervised by John
Dixon Hunt and Gwyn Alfred Williams. He retired as Professor of Literary
Studies from the University of Greenwich in 2010.
William
Wordsworth: Romantic Poetry and Revolution Politics, his third book, was
published by Manchester University Press in 1989. Subsequent books include William Wordsworth: A Literary Life
(Macmillan 1996), Mary Shelley: A
Literary Life (Macmillan 2000), and William
Wordsworth: Critical Issues (Palgrave Macmillan 2002). In 1993 he edited
the Wordsworth volume of the Macmillan New
Casebook series.
Wordsworth
Translated: A Case Study of the Reception of British Romantic Poetry in Germany
1804-1914 was published by Continuum Press in 2009. This book explores for
the first time the wide-spread German reception of Wordsworth in the context of
Anglo-German literary, social, and political relationships, and the development
of translation theories in both countries.
Journal articles and chapters in books have
included work on Percy and Mary Shelley, Thomas Chatterton, Walter Scott,
William Blake and T. F. Powys in addition to Wordsworth. Recent publications
include `”Marginal Gothic” in Walter Scott and William Wordsworth`, in Literature Compass (2010); `Building a
Heaven in Hell’s Despair`: The Everlasting Gospel of Revolution in William
Blake and Douglas Oliver`, in Romanticism
(2012); `Natives, Outcasts, and Aliens: Sir Walter Scott and the Writing of
Modern London`, in The Literary London Journal (2013); and `A
Solemn Bleat: Charles Lamb agrees to review William Wordsworth’s The Excursion`, in The Charles Lamb Bulletin (2014).
Forthcoming publications are an essay on
Wordsworth’s Peter Bell, `Addicted to
Doubt`, for The Coleridge Bulletin
2016, and a chapter on the influence of London literature in the Romantic
Period on contemporary novels set in and around London, including reference to
Peter Ackroyd, J. G. Ballard, Zadie Smith, and John Lanchester.
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