Dr John Lyon
Reader in English
Room: G.11
Tel: 0117 928 9150
Fax: 0117 331 7933
Email: j.m.lyon@bristol.ac.uk
Research interests
- Main research interests in the 19th and 20th centuries (particularly the Novel and Contemporary poetry)
- Shakespeare, Jonson and Donne
- influence and intertextuality
- elegy
- The New Formalism
Appointments
- May 2008– Principal Investigator, AHRC Penguin Archive Project
- January 2009– Member, Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College
Books and editions
- Edited, with Introduction and Notes, Rudyard Kipling, The Light that Failed, (Penguin, 1988).
- The Merchant of Venice(Harvester New Critical Introductions to Shakespeare), (Harvester and Twayne, 1988).
- Edited, with Introduction and Notes, D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics, 1990).
- Edited, with Introduction and Notes, Henry James, The Sacred Fount (Penguin, 1994)
- Edited, with Introduction and Notes, Joseph Conrad, Youth/Heart of Darkness/The End of the Tether (Penguin, 1995)
- Edited with an Introduction and Notes, Henry James, Selected Tales (Penguin, 2000)
- Edited with Introduction and Notes, Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent (World’s Classics) (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Selected Essays
- ‘Half-Written Tales: Kipling and Conrad’ in Kipling Considered, ed. P. Mallett, (Macmillan, 1989) pp.115-34.
- ‘The Anxiety of Criticism: Jonathan Bate on Shakespeare and the Romantics’, Keats-Shelley Review No.5 (1990) 105-117.
- A Bibliography of English Literature from James to Eliot, The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, Volume 7: James to Eliot, ed. Boris Ford (Penguin, 1990) pp.523-74.
- ‘The Art of Grief: Douglas Dunn's Elegies’, English, 40 (1991) 47-67.
- ‘Michael Longley’s Lists’ English 45 (1996) 228-46.
- ‘Doing It All: Tony Harrison’ Thumbscrew No. 6 (1996-7) 11-18.
- ‘Jonson and Carew on Donne: Censure into Praise’ Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 37 (1997) 97-118 and http://www.geocities.com/milleldred/jonsoncarewdonne.html
- ‘Early Mahon, and Later’ Thumbscrew No. 10 (1998) 108-116.
- ‘Henry James and the Anxiety of Rome’ in Roman Presences: Receptions of Rome in European Culture,1789-1945 ed. Catharine Edwards (Cambridge University Press, 1999) pp. 140-56.
- ‘The Test of Time: Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne’ Essays in Criticism 49 (1999) 1-21. ISSN 0014-0856
- ‘“Pardon?”: Our problem with difficulty (and Geoffrey Hill)’ Thumbscrew no.13 (1999) 11-19. ISSN 1369-5371
- ‘What Need Two?’(review essay on edition of and books on Lear) English Language Notes 36 (1998) 58-70.
- ‘Shakespearian Margins in George Eliot’s “working-day world”’, Shakespeare Survey 53 edited by Peter Holland (Cambridge University Press, 2000) pp. 114-26.
- ‘The Critical Elegy’ in Blackwell’s Companion to Renaissance Literature, edited by Michael Hattaway (Blackwell, 2000) pp. 267-75.
- ‘“all that”: Muldoon and the vanity of interpretation’ in Paul Muldoon: Critical Essays edited by Kendall and McDonald (Liverpool University Press, 2004) pp. 110-24.
- ‘“What are you incinerating?”: Geoffrey Hill and Popular Culture’ English (forthcoming 2005). (A version of this essay in French is to be published in the first French collection on Geoffrey Hill, edited by Rene Gallet and Jennifer Kilgore)
Reviews and review articles for Universities Quarterly, Modern Language Review, Cambridge Review, Times Literary Supplement, Review of English Studies, Times Higher Education Supplement, Scottish Literary Journal, Thumbscrew, Notes and Queries and PN Review.
Recent conferences
- Paper in 1996, ‘Henry James and the Anxiety of Rome’, for ‘Decadence’, one of a series of one-day Bristol conferences, part of the Leverhulme three-year project on Receptions of Rome in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Organised Bristol Conference on Influence and Intertextuality in May, 1997.
- Paper, ‘Time and Literary Evaluation: Some Seventeenth-Century Elegists’ for ‘Still a-flying’: The Experience of Time in early Modern Literature, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, November 1997.
- Paper, ‘“Certainly not!”: Geoffrey Hill and Paul Muldoon’ for Bristol Colloquium on Paul Muldoon, October 1998.
- Paper, ‘“Yet not all”: Jonson’s Short Measures’, Renaissance and Early Modern Seminar, Faculty of Arts, University of Bristol, 2002
- Paper, ‘“What are you incinerating?”: Geoffrey Hill and Popular Culture’ for Colloque International: La Poésie de Geoffrey Hill et la Modernité, Université de Caen, 16-17 May 2003.
- Paper, ‘“Too long for a play”: Shakespeare beyond Page and Stage’ for The New Shakespeare: A Writer and his Readers, Lancaster University, July 2004.
Adviser on current PhDs:
- Chilton, Neil, Shakespeare and Henry James (Completion, 2006)
- (with George Donaldson) Clare, Barbara, Strategies of supremacy, survival and self: the writing of power in Ovid, Shakespeare and Kincaid (Completion, 2005)
- (with George Donaldson) Gallagher, Sarah, Shakespeare and Browning (Completion, 2005)
- (with John Lee) Jack, Edward, Shakespeare and Film (Completion, 2005)
- Palmer, Sean, Shakespeare and Censorship (Completion, 2007)
Adviser on completed PhDs:
- (with George Donaldson) Bertram, Theo, The Little Things of Life in Samuel Beckett 2000
- (with George Donaldson) Edwards, Matthew Justin, Vital Commonplaces : Dickens, Tennyson & Victorian Letters of Condolence 1995
- (with George Donaldson) Lee, John, Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Controversies of Self 1996 [subsequently published by Oxford University Press]
- (with John Lee) McWilliams, John, Andrew Marvell: the literary context 2004
- (with George Donaldson) Meek, Richard, Narrative Scepticism and Shakespeare's Poetics 2003
- (with George Donaldson) Scott, Laura Caroline, Dickens and the Story of the Good Voice 1997
- (with George Donaldson) Stewart, Paul, Difference and Disjunction in the Prose of Samuel Beckett 1998