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Professor Peter Boxall FBA

The history of the novel; the relation between aesthetics and politics in modern and contemporary literature; modernism and its legacies; theories of fictionality and artificial life
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2024
Honours
FBA
Subjects
Literature
Sections
Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830
Website
https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-peter-boxall

Current post

Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford

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