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Professor Timothy Webb
Emeritus Professor
Senior Research Fellow
Room: G.14
Phone: 0117 928 8628
Fax: 0117 331 7933
Email: tim.webb@bristol.ac.uk
Research work in progress:
Books
- Leigh Hunt, Autobiography (1850), a fully annotated edition for Oxford University Press (almost completed).
- The Book of Stones: An Imaginative Reader (almost completed).
- Bristol: Romantic City, edited with Andrew Bennett: a collection of essays which attempts to redraw the map of Romantic Britain by making claims for the cultural richness and diversity of Bristol around 1800.
- Shelley's European Reputation, edited with Susanne Schmid for Athlone Press.
- The Unfamiliar Shelley, edited with Alan Weinberg: a commissioned collection of sixteen essays.
- Romantic Ireland (working title): a book designed to draw attention to the rich and complicated ways in which during the Romantic period Ireland and Irish questions impinged on British, and especially English, consciousness.
I also plan to finish books on Byron, Shelley, Leigh Hunt, the Romantic city, and the reception of Greece and Greek examples in Romantic England.
Chapters and articles
Currently, I am writing to commission chapters on: Romantic Wales (for a book edited by Damian Walford Davies); Catholicism (for a book edited by Gavin Hopps and Jane Stabler); Shelley as a Translator (for The Cambridge Companion to Shelley, edited by Timothy Morton); Shelley's letters from Italy (for The Unfamiliar Shelley) - this includes regular correspondence and Letter to Maria Gisborne; Southey and the Annual Anthology (for Bristol: Romantic City); 'The Impulsive Aeronaut and the Railway Rationalist' (for Scotland, Ireland and the Romantic Aesthetic, edited by David Duff and Catherine Jones).
Publications
Books
- The Violet in the Crucible: Shelley and Translation, Clarendon Press (1976), 364 pp.
- Shelley: A Voice Not Understood, Manchester University Press (1977), 270pp.
- Shelley: Selected Poems, Everyman's University Library, J.M.Dent (1977; revised and corrected edition, 1983), 232pp.
- English Romantic Hellenism, 1700-1824, Manchester University Press (1982), 254pp.
- Yeats: Selected Poetry, Penguin Poetry Library, Penguin Books (1991), 318pp.; revised and corrected editions (2000; 2003 (planned)).
- Shelley's "Devils" Notebook, The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts, vol. xiv (edited with P.M.S.Dawson), Garland Publishing (New York) (1993), xli + 293pp.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poems and Prose, Everyman, J.M. Dent (1995), xxxv + 552pp. (revised and substantially expanded from Shelley: Selected Poems).
- The Faust Draft Notebook, The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts, vol. xix (edited with Nora Crook), Garland Publishing (New York) (1997), xcii + 331pp.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, Everyman's Poetry, J.M. Dent (1998), 111pp.
Articles and contributions to books (selected)
- '"Planetary Music": James Joyce and the Romantic Example', in James Joyce and Modern Literature, edited by W.J. McCormack and Alistair Stead, Routledge and Kegan Paul (1982), pp. 30-55
- 'The Unascended Heaven: Negatives in Prometheus Unbound', in Shelley Revalued: Essays from the Gregynog Conference, edited by Kelvin Everest, Leicester University Press (1983), pp. 37-62 (reprinted in slightly shortened form in Shelley's Poetry and Prose, edited by Donald H.Reiman and Neil Fraistat, Norton (2002))
- '"The Avalanche of Ages": Shelley's Defence of Atheism and Prometheus Unbound', Keats-Shelley Memorial Bulletin, 35 (1984), 1-39
- 'The Romantic Poets and the Stage: A Short,Sad, History', in The Romantic Theatre: An International Symposium, edited by Richard Allen Cave, Colin Smythe (1986), pp. 1-36
- '"The Rebel in the Heart": Coleridge, Southey e la rivoluzione di Robert Emmet', in La Rivoluzione francese in Inghilterra, edited by Lilla Maria Crisafulli Jones, Liguori Editore (Naples) (1990), pp. 293-335 [see 'Coleridge and Robert Emmet' below]
- 'Byron and the Heroic Syllables', Keats-Shelley Review, 5 (1991), 41-74
- '"Correcting the Irritability of his Temper": The Evolution of Leigh Hunt's Autobiography, in Romantic Revisions, edited by Robert Brinkley and Keith Hanley, Cambridge University Press (1992), pp. 268-90
- 'Yeats and the English', in The Internationalism of Irish Literature and Drama, edited by Joseph McMinn (Irish Literary Studies, 31), Colin Smythe (1992), pp. 232-51,345-51 'Religion in Friendship: Leigh Hunt's Unpublished Tribute to Shelley', Keats-Shelley Review, 7 (1992), 1-61
- 'Romantic Hellenism', in The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism, edited by Stuart Curran, Cambridge University Press (1993), pp.148-76
- 'Naming I -T: Incest and Outrage in Shelley', in Shelley 1792-1992, edited by James Hogg (Salzburg Studies in English Literature), Edwin Mellen Press (1993), pp.186-204
- '"Cutting Figures": Rhetorical Strategies in Keats's Letters', in Keats: Bicentenary Readings, edited by Michael O'Neill, Edinburgh University Press (1997), pp. 144-69
- 'The Bastinadoed Elephant: Byron and the Rhetoric of Irish Servility', in Byron: East and West, edited by Martin Prochazka, Prague (2000), pp. 29-62
- '"Branding Pages and Burning Lines": Re-visiting The Curse of Minerva', in Byron: A Poet for All Seasons, edited by Marios Byron Raizis, Messolonghi (2000), pp. 12-52
- '"A Great Theatre of Outrage and Disorder": Figuring Ireland in the Edinburgh Review, 1803-29', in British Romanticism and the Edinburgh Review, edited by Massimiliano Demata and Duncan Wu, Palgrave (2002), pp. 58-81
- 'Dangerous Plurals: Wordsworth and Bartholomew Fair', in London in Literature: Visionary Mappings of the Metropolis, edited by Susana Onega and John A. Stotesbury, C. Winter (Heidelberg) (2002), pp. 53-82
- 'Appropriating the Stones: the 'Elgin Marbles' and English National Taste', in Claiming the Stones/Naming the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National; and Ethnic Identity, edited by Elazar Barkan and Ronald Bush, Getty Institute (Los Angeles) (2002), pp. 50-95 .
University appointments
- University of Leeds; Michigan State University; University of York (Professor 1985-9);
- Professor, University of Bristol, since 1989; Head of Department, 1990-1999;
- Winterstoke Professor, from 1998 to 2006;
- Visiting Professor, University of Bologna.
External appointments
External examiner
- (BA): Leeds Polytechnic; University of Glasgow; University of Stirling; Trinity College, Dublin; University of Oxford; University of Cambridge; University of Malta (on three separate occasions)
- (MA, by coursework and dissertation): University of Essex (twice); Goldsmith's College, London; University of Ulster,Coleraine
- (M. Litt./Ph.D.): Oxford (frequently), Cambridge (twice), Warwick, Essex, Lampeter, Reading, Coleraine, Sheffield, Southampton, Sussex, Cardiff, York
External committees
- Panel Member, British Academy Postgraduate Awards Committee,1992-6, (Chairman,1994)
- Member, Committee of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association, London and Rome,1977-94
- Honorary Member, Keats-Shelley Association of America, 1993 -
- Comitato Scientifico, Centre for the Study of Fantasy, Procida, 1998 - ; Adviser on Promotion/Appointment, Pennsylvania State University, Universities of York, Oxford, Warwick, Cork (last three involved attendance)
- Member, International Advisory Board, Byron Centre, Thessaloniki, 2002 -
Editorial appointments
- Editor, Keats-Shelley Memorial Bulletin (retitled Keats-Shelley Review), 1978-92
- Founding Editor, Romanticism, 1994 -
- Advisory Editor, Literature and Translation, Glasgow, 1992 -
- Comitato Scientifico, La Questione Romantica, Bologna, 1995 -
- Editorial Board, Literaria Pragensia, Prague, 2001 -
Internal appointments
- University Research Fellow, 2001- 2; Acting Director, Centre for Romantic Studies, 2001-2003.