Professor Eric Stanley FBA

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1985
Year of death
2018
Subjects
Literature, Modern languages

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University of Oxford Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor Emeritus of Anglo-Saxon

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Professor Nigel Leask FBA

Literature & culture of the 'long Romantic period', with a focus on empire, nation & travel writing. My recent focus is Scottish literature & thought 1750-1850, with a special emphasis on Robert Burns & his poetic & intellectual circle.

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Professor David Womersley FBA

English literature of the long eighteenth century, especially Gibbon, Swift, Burke and Johnson; sixteenth-century historiography and historical drama; the history of literary criticism; the theory and practice of textual editing

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Professor Marie-Luce Demonet FBA

Renaissance French literature; Early modern linguistic theory, semiotics; Early modern fictionality, Arts of discourse, Mind theory (possible worlds, counterfactuals); Rhetoric of orality, writing and printing; Digital scholarly editions

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