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Emeritus Professor Vincent Newey
MA BLitt (Oxford), PhD (Liverpool) FEA FRSA
Emeritus Professor of English
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Research Interests
Professor Newey is joint editor (with Professor Joanne Shattock) of the 'Nineteenth Century' monograph series from Ashgate, which has international standing for work in English and related disciplines. He edits the reviews section of the Byron Journal and is joint editor of the Cowper and Newton Bulletin . He sits on the advisory boards of other academic journals: Bunyan Studies, Romanticism, English Review , and the internet periodical Postgraduate English .
Recent Publications
Professor Newey is the author of:
British and American Poetry; Cowper's Poetry: A Critical Study and Reassessment;
Centring the Self: Subjectivity, Society, and Reading from Thomas Gray to Thomas Hardy.
His book on Dickens, The Scriptures of Charles Dickens: Novels of Ideology, Novels of the Self was published in 2004.
He has edited collections of original essays on:
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The Pilgrim's Progress [John Bunyan];
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Critical and Historical Views;
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Byron and the Limits of Fiction (with Bernard Beatty);
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Literature and Nationalism (with Ann Thompson);
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Mortal Pages, Literary Lives: Studies in Nineteenth-Century Autobiography (with Professor Philip Shaw ).
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His other publications include a range of articles on Puritan writers, eighteenth-century poetry, Victorian fiction, and especially the Romantic poets.
