Professor Tim Unwin
E-mail: T.A.Unwin@bristol.ac.uk
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Tim Unwin is Emeritus Professor. He was previously Ashley Watkins Professor of French, Head of Subject, and Director of the Bristol Institute for Research in The Humanities and Arts (BIRTHA). Prior to arriving in Bristol in January 2001 he taught at the universities of Exeter, Edinburgh, Queen's Belfast, Western Australia (Perth), and Liverpool where he was James Barrow Professor of French. He was founder President of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes (2001-2008) and is a former President (2002-2004) and Vice-President (2004-2007) of the Association of University Professors and Heads of French (AUPHF).
He is on the editorial boards of French Studies and the Australian Journal of French Studies, and on editorial committee of Essays in French Literature and Culture. He is also French editor for The Literary Encyclopedia, and is on the advisory board of the Liverpool Online Series. He is also co-moderator of Francofil, the world’s largest e-mail forum in our subject area.
His main research interest is in the nineteenth-century novel, with particular emphasis on travel and technology, and an additional interest in French accounts of Australia in the nineteenth century. He has written books on Flaubert, Verne, Constant, and reflexivity in the nineteenth century, and he has edited two volumes in the 'Cambridge Companion' series.
Selected publications
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- ‘Brunel’s Great Eastern and the Vernian imagination : The Writing of Une ville flottante’, Verniana, 2 (2009-10), 23-46 (www.verniana.org)
- Susan Harrow and Timothy Unwin (eds), Joie de vivre in French Literature and Culture: Essays in Honour of Michael Freeman (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2009)
- ‘Emma Bovary et les "jours où l’on a vécu deux existences" ’, in Madame Bovary, cent ans après, sous la direction de Daniel Fauvel et Yvan Leclerc, Bulletin Flaubert-Maupassant, 23 (2008), 309-17
- ‘Jules Verne and the Discovery of the Natural World’, in Louise Lyle and David McCallum (eds), Histoires de la Terre: Earth Sciences and French Culture 1740-1940, (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008), pp. 155-70
- 'De l’héroïsme de la vie vernienne’, in Jules Verne ou les inventions romanesques, sous la direction de Christophe Reffait et Alain Schaffner (Amiens: Encrage, 2007), pp. 367-75
- ‘Jules Verne and the History of the Universe’, in Sonya Stephens (ed.), Esquisses/Ebauches: Projects and Pre-Texts in
Nineteenth-Century French Culture (New York: Peter Lang, 2007), pp. 122-32
- Harkness, Nigel, Lisa,Downing, Sonya Stephens, Tim Unwin (eds.), Birth and Death in Nineteenth-Century French Culture (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007)
- ‘Vernotopia (utopia, ecotopia, technotopia, heterotopia, retrotopia, textotopia, dystopia)’, Australian Journal of French Studies, 43:3 (2006), 333-4
- (Guest editor), ‘Jules Verne in the Twenty-First Century’, special issue of Australian Journal of French Studies, 42:3 (2005)
- ‘Jules Verne: The Problem of the Already Written’, Australian Journal of French Studies, 42:3 (2005), 256-64
- ‘Jules Verne: negotiating change in the nineteenth century’, Science Fiction Studies, 32 (2005), 5-17
- Jules Verne: Journeys in Writing (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2005)
- The Cambridge Companion to Flaubert (Cambridge: CUP, 2004)
- ‘Novel Environments: Jules Verne’s Voyages extraordinaires’, Essays in French Literature, 41 (2004), 185-202
- ‘Eat My Words: Verne and Flaubert, or the Anxiety of the Culinary’, in John West-Sooby (ed.), Consuming Culture: The Arts of the French Table (Newark: University o
f Delaware Press, 2004), pp. 118-29
- Harkness, Nigel, Paul Rowe, Timothy Unwin and Jennifer Yee (eds), Visions/Revisions. Studies in Nineteenth-Century French Culture (Bern: Peter Lang, 2003)
- ‘Les Mémoires d’un fou et la question du style’, Bulletin des Amis de Flaubert et de Maupassant, 10 (2002), 9-18, and online in the Revue Flaubert, 2 (2002)
- Parallel translation and critical edition of Gustave Flaubert, Mémoires d'un fou/Memoirs of a Madman (Liverpool: Liverpool Online Series, 2001)
- (Guest editor) 'Ecrire l'exil: rupture et continuité/Writing Exile: Separation and Continuity',
Mots Pluriels, 17 (2001) - ‘Maupassant and the Creation of the Post-Realist Novel’, Essays in French Literature, 37 (2000), 161-86
- Textes réfléchissants: réalisme et réflexivité au dix-neuvième siècle (Bern: Peter Lang, 2000)
- The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel: 1800 to the Present (Cambridge: CUP, 1997)
- (Ed.) Louis Bouilhet, Le Cœur à droite (University of Exeter: ‘Textes Littéraires’, LXXXV, 1993
- Verne: ‘Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours’ (University of Glasgow: ‘Glasgow Introductory Guides to French Literature’, 23, 1992)
- Art et infini: l’œuvre de jeunesse de Gustave Flaubert (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1991)
- Constant: ‘Adolphe’ (London: Grant and Cutler, 1986)
- Flaubert et Baudelaire: affinités spirituelles et esthétiques (Paris: Nizet, 1982)
- (Ed.) Gustave Flaubert, Trois Contes de jeunesse (University of Exeter: ‘Textes Littéraires’, XLI, 1981)
