
Dr Stephen Cheeke
B.A.(Cantab.), Ph.D.(Bristol)
Current positions
Senior Lecturer in English
Department of English
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Research interests
I have published work on Romanticism, particularly on Byron and P.B. Shelley. I have also written about the relationship between literature and art (painting, sculpture, photography), especially in the nineteenth century, including specific figures such as John Ruskin, Walter Pater, D.G. Rossetti and Robert Browning. I am currently working on a study of Walter Pater and Personhood. Other current research interests include the early work of W.B. Yeats, Decadence and the 1890s, and early modernism. This research is focused upon the relationship between literature and theology during that period, and forms the basis of a new project on Antinomianism.
I would be interested in offering PhD supervision in any of these areas.
Teaching:
I currently teach on the following courses:
Literature 1740-1900
Literature 1900-Present
Modernist Writers (Yeats, Eliot, Woolf, Mansfield, Auden)
American Literature: 1945-Present
Romantic Poetry and Poetics (MA level)
Victorian Literature and Place (MA level)
Projects and supervisions
Thesis supervisions
John Keats, Benjamin Robert Haydon, and the aesthetics of light and shade
Supervisors
The Evolution of the European Avant-Garde Art Movement, Through Collectivism and Propagandist Literature
Supervisors
'More,/ And still more'
Supervisors
Exquisite grotesques
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After Impressionism
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‘Hands full of employment, and a head not above it’
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Elizabeth Bishop's voices
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Nature and landscape in Michael Longley's poetry
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
27/02/2023Antinomianism at the Fin-de-Siècle
Cusp: Late 19th-/Early 20th-Century Cultures
Walter Pater and Personification
Essays in Criticism
The face of Beatrice Cenci
Ekphrastic encounters
'Pateresque'
Cambridge Quarterly
"Fantastic Modernism"
Word and Image