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Professor Tim Fulford

Job: Professor of English

Faculty: Arts, Design and Humanities

School/department: School of Humanities

Research group(s): Centre for Textual Studies

Address: De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, UK, LE1 9BH

T: +44 (0)116 250 6239

E: tfulford@dmu.ac.uk

W: https://www.dmu.ac.uk/cts

 

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Personal profile

Professor Fulford’s research lies in the area of literature in the Romantic era, in the contexts of colonialism, exploration, science, landscape, the picturesque, religion.  He has published many articles and books on these topics, featuring such writers as William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge, Robert Bloomfield, Mary Robinson, William Cowper, Jane Austen and John Clare. Professor Fulford is currently preparing scholarly editions of the letters of Robert Southey and of Humphry Davy.   His next monograph will be a study of the Late Poetry of the Lake Poets.

Research group affiliations

Centre for Textual Studies

Publications and outputs

  • Experimentalism in Wordsworth's later Poetry: Dialogues with the Dead
    dc.title: Experimentalism in Wordsworth's later Poetry: Dialogues with the Dead dc.contributor.author: Fulford, Tim
  • Robert Southey, Lives of Labouring-class Poets, ed. Tim Fulford (London and New York: Routledge, 2023)
    dc.title: Robert Southey, Lives of Labouring-class Poets, ed. Tim Fulford (London and New York: Routledge, 2023) dc.contributor.author: Fulford, Tim
  • Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley and Rise and Progress of Methodism
    dc.title: Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley and Rise and Progress of Methodism dc.contributor.author: Fulford, Tim
  • Patronage, Philosophy, and Publicity: Thomas Wedgwood, Thomas Beddoes, and the Pneumatic Institution
    dc.title: Patronage, Philosophy, and Publicity: Thomas Wedgwood, Thomas Beddoes, and the Pneumatic Institution dc.contributor.author: Fulford, Tim
  • Mont Blanc Imagined: Poetry, Science and the Prospect-View in Davy and Coleridge
    dc.title: Mont Blanc Imagined: Poetry, Science and the Prospect-View in Davy and Coleridge dc.contributor.author: Fulford, Tim dc.description: The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version.
  • Humphry Davy, Jane Marcet and the Cultures of Romantic-Era Science
    dc.title: Humphry Davy, Jane Marcet and the Cultures of Romantic-Era Science dc.contributor.author: Fulford, Tim dc.description.abstract: Using the career of Humphry Davy, the era’s most famous natural philosopher, I examine the Romantic construction of the scientific genius and explore, beyond it, several of the cultures in which enquiry into nature was practised in the period. I argue that Jane Marcet introduced Davy to a more gender-balanced, continental scientific circle and that her work Conversations on Chemistry (1805) effected a feminization and democratization of the “man of science,” helping to inaugurate a new era in which mass print encouraged both women and men from socially-excluded groups to access scientific knowledge and practice. dc.description: The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version.
  • Metaphysics in the Circle of Thomas Beddoes, Thomas Wedgwood, S. T. Coleridge
    dc.title: Metaphysics in the Circle of Thomas Beddoes, Thomas Wedgwood, S. T. Coleridge dc.contributor.author: Fulford, Tim dc.description: The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version.
  • Robert Southey, The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson
    dc.title: Robert Southey, The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson dc.contributor.author: Fulford, Tim dc.description.abstract: The Life of Nelson is one of Robert Southey’s most influential and bestselling works. This new edition will contain a comprehensive critical apparatus that will make sense of the major issues posed by the text and how it contributes to studies of both Southey and Romanticism. The edition will feature a critical and contextual introduction, which will set out the origins and composition of the text together with its publication history, as well as offer a carefully considered view of the interplay between the Life and other biographies of Nelson, bringing into view the wide array of sources and influences Southey drew from.
  • Ecopoetics and Boyopoetics: Bloomfield, Clare and the Nature of Lyric
    dc.title: Ecopoetics and Boyopoetics: Bloomfield, Clare and the Nature of Lyric dc.contributor.author: Fulford, Tim dc.description.abstract: This article investigates the ecological lyrics of Robert Bloomfield and John Clare, suggesting that the elision of adult subject-positions in the latter was influenced by the pioneering poetry of the former. An alternative to the sublime egotism of William Wordsworth, and to the “Greater Romantic Lyric” as defined by twentieth-century criticism, Bloomfield’s and Clare’s eco-poetry is characterized by a delicate, intricate and valuable lyricism that does not use nature as a sounding-bound for a supposedly timeless, bourgeois male subjectivity. But it was shaped as much by the book market—by class-based restrictions on laboring-class men’s access to print—as by the poets’ exceptionally selfless environmentalism. dc.description: The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.
  • Davy Takes to the Hills: Dialogic Enquiry and the Aesthetics of the Prospect View
    dc.title: Davy Takes to the Hills: Dialogic Enquiry and the Aesthetics of the Prospect View dc.contributor.author: Fulford, Tim dc.description.abstract: A study of the social culture in which the science of geology was developed. dc.description: The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.

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Key research outputs

Robert Bloomfield, The Banks of Wye: A Critical Edition. Online edition of Bloomfield’s sketchbook, tour journal and Georgic poem. http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/wye/

Robert Southey: Poetical Works 1811-38, 4 vols, gen. ed. with Lynda Pratt (Pickering and Chatto, 2012) 

Romantic Indians: Native Americans and Transatlantic Literary Culture 1755-1830 (Oxford: O.U.P. 2006)

Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era: Bodies of Knowledge. Co-written monograph with Debbie Lee and Peter J. Kitson (Cambridge: C.U.P. 2004)

Romanticism and Masculinity (Basingstoke: Macmillan/New York: St Martin’s Press, 1999).

Research interests/expertise

Romanticism, colonialism, exploration, science, landscape, the picturesque, religion. William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge, Robert Bloomfield, Mary Robinson, William Cowper, Jane Austen, John Clare, Robert Southey, Humphry Davy.

Areas of teaching

Romanticism, Gothic.

Qualifications

MA, PhD

Professional esteem indicators

Professor Fulford is on the Editorial Boards of the journals Romanticism, European Romantic Review, The Wordsworth Circle, Romanticism and Victorianism Online, Essays in Romanticism and of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism.  He is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College and of the AHRC Peer Review Panel.

 

Tim Fulford
Romanticism and Masculinity

Romantic Indians

Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era