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Dr Kate Loveman
BA (Cambridge), MA (York), PhD (Cambridge)
Lecturer
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T: +44 (0)116 252 2627
Research Interests
Dr Loveman works on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature and history, with particular interests in reading habits, political writing, and sociability. Her recent monograph, Reading Fictions 1660-1740: Deception in English Literary and Political Culture, explores the strategies used (and games played) by early modern readers in responding to a spectrum of fictitious narratives. The works examined range from those of republican hoaxers, such as Thomas Chaloner, to the political and literary fictions of Defoe, Swift and Richardson. Her articles include a piece which revealed the fate of Samuel Pepys’s long-lost mistress, Deb Willet, after the end of his diary (Historical Journal). Dr Loveman is currently writing a book about reading and news-gathering in the late seventeenth century, based around the diaries and unpublished papers of Pepys. She received an AHRC early careers award to work on this project in 2010.
Read about Dr Loveman's findings on Pepys and Deb Willet, as reported by The Times in October 2006.
Read Dr Loveman's piece for the BBC website on 'Humour in Restoration England', part of the feature 'Funny ha-ha - or funny historical?'.
Dr Loveman's article in the University of Leicester's LE1 magazine, first published in Winter 2008.
Projects
Postgraduate Supervision
Dr Loveman would welcome enquiries and applications from postgraduate students interested in seventeenth and early eighteenth-century literature, especially in the following areas: the early novel; the history of reading; life-writing; oral and manuscript cultures; news and pamphleteering; Behn, Defoe, and Swift.
Teaching and Administration
- EN1010 Reading English
- EN2020: Renaissance Literature
- EN2050: From Satire to Sensibility: Literature 1660-1789
- EN3142: Crime and Literature, 1600-1750
- EN3171: Historical Fiction
Dr Loveman also contributes to the MA in English Literary Research, the MA in the Humanities, and the MA in the Country House.
Director of Admissions for English.
Recent Publications
'Samuel Pepys and "Discourses touching Religion" under James II', English Historical Review, 127 (2012), 46-82.
'Further Information on Deb Willet before and after Samuel Pepys's Diary', Notes and Queries, 256 (2011), 388-90
‘Books and Sociability: The Case of Samuel Pepys’s Library’, Review of English Studies, 61 (2010), 214-33
Reading Fictions 1660-1740: Deception in English Literary and Political Culture (Ashgate, 2008)
- Review of Reading Fictions (PDF) in the Review of English Studies by Rebecca Bullard 60 (2009), pp. 654-57.
