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Glynis Ridley

Glynis Ridley

Appointments

  • Associate Professor
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies

Departments

Location

  • Room 315A
  • Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
  • Office Hours: M, TH 3:00-4:00 PM and by appointment

Phone Number

  • 502-852-6801

Email Address

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Office Hours:

M, TH 3:00-4:00 PM and by appointment

 

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

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

Teaching Areas

  • Eighteenth-Century Studies

Research Interests

  • Eighteenth-Century Studies, incl. the political iconography of the 18thC English landscape garden
  • History of Rhetoric
  • Animal Studies

Publications

  • Clara’s Grand Tour. Travels with a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Atlantic Books, London: 2004) xvii + 222pp. (1st US edition: Grove Atlantic, New York: 2005).  Winner of the Institute of Historical Research Prize. Shortlisted for both the Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award and the Duff Cooper Prize in 2005, both honoring the best non-fiction published in Britain in the previous year.

     

  • “It was only a figure of speech’: words, things, and the rhetorician’s art’. Postscript to the Middle Ages: Teaching Medieval Studies through Umberto Eco’s ‘The Name of the Rose’ ed. Alison Ganze (Syracuse University Press, 2009): 223-47. 


  • “Les Paysages de l’Angleterre au XVIIIe siècle: une perspective à dos de cheval”. À cheval! Écuyers, amazons & cavaliers du XIVe au XXIe siècle eds. Daniel Roche and Daniel Reytier (Association pour l’Académie d’Art Équestre de Versailles: Paris, 2007): 101-114.

  • “The Rhetoric of Liberty: playing to the crowd in the American and French Revolution”.  Enlightenment and Emancipation eds. Susan Manning and Peter France (Bucknell University Press, 2006): 63-80.

  • “Studley Royal: Landscape as Sculpture”.  Sculpture and the Garden eds. Patrick Eyres and Fiona Russell (Ashgate and the Henry Moore Institute, 2006): 51-60.

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

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

  • “Losing America and Finding Australia: Continental Drift in an Enlightenment Paradigm”. Eighteenth-Century Life: The Exotic eds. Robert P. Maccubbin and Christa Knellwolf (Duke University Press, vol.26 n.s.3, Fall 2002): 202-224.

     

  • “The Seasons and the politics of opposition”. James Thomson: Essays for the Tercentenary ed. Richard Terry (Liverpool University Press, 2000): 93-116.

     

  • “Injustice in the novels of Godwin and Wollstonecraft”. Women, Revolution and the Novels of the 1790s  ed. Linda Lang-Peralta (Michigan State University Press, 1999): 69-88.


  • “The First American Cookbook”. Eighteenth-Century Life: The Cultural Topography of Food ed. Beatrice Fink  (Johns Hopkins University Press, vol.23 n.s. 2, May 1999): 114-123.   

 
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