Mr Richard Holmes FBA

History English Language and Literature
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1997
Subjects
Literature

Current post

Independent Scholar

Past appointments

University of East Anglia Professor of Biographical Studies

2001 - 2007

Publications

Shelley: the pursuit 1974

Footsteps 1985

Coleridge: early visions 1989

Dr Johnson and Mr Savage 1994

Coleridge: darker reflections 1998

Sidetracks 2000

The Age of Wonder 2008

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Derek Attridge FBA

The language of literature and literary theory: Renaissance prosodic experiments, English poetic rhythm, James Joyce and J. M. Coetzee, philosophical approaches to literature.

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Professor Ananya Jahanara Kabir FBA

Creolisation between Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds; Critical philology, including intellectual lineages of the European Middle Ages; European (post)imperial legacies in comparative frame; memory, trauma, and the politics of pleasure

Ananya Jahanara Kabir FBA

Professor Daniel Karlin FBA

19th and 20th-century British and American literature (Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling); the work of Marcel Proust; poetry and popular song, especially the work of Bob Dylan

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