Graduate Student, English
St Catherine's
Thesis Title: "A Prodigious Number of Pretenders": Literary Politics and/or Politic Literature, c. 1678-1720
About
I'm a graduate student at St Catherine's College, Oxford, working on literature and politics from the Popish Plot to the South Sea Bubble. My general interest, then, is in literature and politics in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. 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.
My long term project is a cultural/political history of the year 1708, focusing on the representation of politics through episodes like the Bickerstaff hoax, the rise and fall of the French Prophets, and the Pretender's failed invasion attempt in March.
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St Catherine's College
Oxford
OX1 3UJ
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