Joseph Turner

Thesis title: The art of ease in English poetry

Supervisor: Professor Freya Johnston

Doctoral research: I am working on 'ease' in literature from the late seventeenth to the late eighteenth century, with a focus on poetry. My research is funded by an AHRC OOC-DTP studentship. Before starting the DPhil, I read for a BA in English at St Anne's College, and for an MPhil in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Research interests: Eighteenth-century and Romantic period literature; poetry; style; comedy and satire; close reading; the history and language of literary criticism. Authors of particular interest include Dryden, Pope, Sterne, Johnson, Churchill, Cowper, Austen, and Peacock.

Publications

'Churchill's Nervousness', Essays in Criticism, 72 (2022), pp. 463-77.

'The Eighteenth Century (1700-1780): 1. General and Prose', The Year's Work in English Studies, 102 (2023).