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Glynis Ridley

Appointments

  • Associate Professor

Departments

Location

  • Room 318 B
  • Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus

Phone Number

  • 502-852-5920

Email Address

Website


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English Courses Recently Taught:

HUM 593-01: Perspectives on Early Modern Culture (Spring, 2008)
ENGL 601 - 01: Introduction to English Studies (Spring, 2008)
ENGL 310 - 06: Writing About Literature (Fall, 2007)
ENGL 391 - 01: The Novel in English I (Fall, 2007)
Hum 593 - 01: Perspectives on Early Modern Culture (Spring, 2007)
ENGL 601 - 75: Introduction to English Studies (Spring, 2007)
ENGL 314 - 01: British Lit. from Shakespeare - Neoclassical Period
(Fall, 2006)
ENGL 642 - 75: Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Fall, 2006)
ENGL 318 - 01: American Literature to 1830 (Spring, 2006)
ENGL 601 - 01: Introduction to English Studies (Spring, 2006)


Educational Background

  • Ph.D. from Trinity College, University of Oxford

Teaching Areas

  • Eighteenth-Century Studies; History of Rhetoric

Publications

  • Clara's Grand Tour

    Clara's Grand Tour: Travels with a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Atlantic Books: London, 2004). Pp. xvii + 222. Winner of the Institute of Historical Research Prize. Shortlisted for the Longman History Today Book of the Year Award 2005. Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2005.

  • The Rhetoric of Liberty

    'The Rhetoric of Liberty: Playing to the Crowd in the American and French Revolutions', Enlightenment and Emancipation edited by Susan Manning and Peter France (Bucknell University Press, 2006): 63-80.

  • Studley Royal

    'Studley Royal: Landscape as Sculpture', Sculpture and the Garden edited by Patrick Eyres and Fiona Russell (Ashgate and the Henry Moore Institute, 2006): 50-60.

  • Sacred and Secular Places

    'Sacred and Secular Places: an Atlantic Divide', Recording and Reordering. Essays on the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Diary and Journal edited by Dan Doll and Jessica Munns (Bucknell University Press, 2006): 22-42.

  • National Identity and Empire

    'National Identity and Empire: Britain and the American Colonies, 1763-1787', Colonial Empires Compared: Britain and the Netherlands 1750-1850 edited by Bob Moore and Henk van Nierop (Ashgate, 2003): 47-75.

  • Losing America and Finding Australia

    'Losing America and Finding Australia: Continental Drift in an Enlightenment Paradigm', Eighteenth-Century Life: The Exotic edited by Robert P. Maccubbin and Christa Knellwolf (Duke University Press, Fall 2002): 202-224.


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