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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
Website
Bio
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
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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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“Studley Royal: Landscape as Sculpture”. Sculpture and the Garden eds. Patrick Eyres and Fiona Russell (Ashgate and the Henry Moore Institute, 2006): 51-60.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“The Seasons and the politics of opposition”. James Thomson: Essays for the Tercentenary ed. Richard Terry (Liverpool University Press, 2000): 93-116.
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“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.
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“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.

