Faculty Member, St Peter's College
Departmental Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature
St. Peter's College
Thesis Title: "A Prodigious Number of Pretenders": Literary Politics and/or Politic Literature, c. 1678-1720
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Dr. Christine Gerrard
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About
I completed my thesis on the representation of politics from the Popish Plot to the South Sea Bubble in 2009. My general interests, then, are in literature and politics in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, bibliography and the history of the book. In particular, I work with hoaxes, scandals, and similar episodes, such as the Bickerstaff Hoax or the Warming Pan Scandal. Particular authors like Swift, Dryden, and Defoe figure in my research, but I focus more on popular literature, pamphlets, broadsides, and other ephemeral forms of polemic.
As Jacobite Studies trust Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, London, I was working on the representations of the Jacobite Invasion attempt of 1708. This fellowship has been interrupted for this calendar year by a Lectureship in Eighteenth Century Literature at St. Peter's College, Oxford.
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