Joseph Turner

Thesis title: The art of ease in English poetry

Supervisor: Professor Freya Johnston

Doctoral research: I am working on the idea of '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. 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.

I am also responsible for the eighteenth-century 'General and Prose' section of The Year's Work in English Studies.