Mr Nicolas Barker FBA

History of the Book (English)
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1998
Subjects
Literature

Current post

Formerly Deputy Keeper, British Library

Publications

Bibliotheca Lindesiana 1977

Two East Anglian picture books 1988

The great book of Thomas Trevilian 2000

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Nicholas Harrison FBA

French, postcolonial and comparative studies. North Africa, especially colonial Algeria; literary theory; translation; the political work of literary texts and films, as understood by writers, censors, critics, and teachers

Nicholas Harrison FBA

Professor Antoine Compagnon FBA

French Renaissance prose; 19th and 20th-century French literature and culture; history of criticism; theory of literature

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Professor Rachel Bowlby FBA

Literary realism; history and theory of consumer culture; Freud, especially in relation to Greek tragedy and feminist reappraisals; Virginia Woolf; contemporary French philosophy.

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