Notes on Contributors

166 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Catherine Bois, an alumna of the École Normale Supérieure, is currently Associate Professor (maître de conférences HDR) of English Literature at Université Paris Nanterre. She has worked in the field of Romantic intermediality, in particular on representations of the landscape in Wordsworth and Constable. Her present research focuses on the various implications of the nexus between rhetoric, poetics and aesthetics in Great Britain during the long eighteenth century. She has published articles on the Gothic novel, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Thomas De Quincey, Percy Bysshe Shelley, on the rhetorical notion of sympathy in David Hume and Adam Smith, as well as on the problem of Miltonic filiation in eighteenth-century and early Romantic poetry. She is the author of Un langage investi. Rhétorique et poésie lyrique dans le long dix-huitième siècle britannique (Lyon: PUL-ELLUG, 2020). catherine.boi[email protected] Francesco Buscemi is Assistant Professor of Modern History at the University of Groningen (Netherlands). After receiving his PhD in History at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa), he worked as a postdoc at the University of Warwick, and as a researcher at the Centre for the History of Emotions of the MPIB in Berlin. His recent publications include “The Importance of Being Revolutionary: Oath-Taking and the ‘Feeling Rules’ of Violence (1789-1794),” French History 33, no. 2 (2019): 218-35; and “Feeling Political in Public Administration: French Bureaucracy between Militancy and Sens de l’État, 1789-2019,” in Feeling Political (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). While finishing a book based on his dissertation on the history of political loyalty and oath-taking in revolutionary France, he is working on a new research project on the emotional templates of civil servants in modern Europe. [email protected]l David Duff is Professor of Romanticism at Queen Mary University of London and co-director of The London-Paris Romanticism Seminar. He also co-directs an International Summer School of Romanticism, founded in Prague in 2022. His publications include Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre (1994), Romanticism and the Uses of Genre (2009), and several edited books, including Modern Genre Theory (2000) and The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism (2018). He has co-edited (with Marc Porée) two previous volumes of Litteraria Pragensia, on Wordsworth and France (2017) and Exiles, Émigrés and Expatriates in Romantic-Era Paris and London (2019); and is co-editor of forthcoming Notes on Contributors 167 special issues in other journals on British Romanticism and Europe and Romanticism at the Royal Institution. He is currently completing a book on the Romantic prospectus and preparing an anthology of Romanticism. [email protected] Rémy Duthille is Professor in British Studies at Université Bordeaux Montaigne. His research area is British radical ideology and sociability, c.1745-1850. His book Le Discours radical en Grande-Bretagne, 1768-1789 (Voltaire Foundation, 2017) is a study in the intellectual history of English and Scottish reform politics. He has written on various “radicals,” including male feminists and utopians. His most recent work bears on the celebration of foreign revolutions by groups of British activists, and the memory of revolutions, especially the British reception of the Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 (a short moment of revolutionary intensity finishing with the establishment of the parliamentary monarchy) and the French Revolutions of 1789, 1830 and 1848. remy.duthil[email protected] Paul Hamilton is an Emeritus Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London. Previously he was a Fellow of Exeter College Oxford and then Professor at the University of Southampton. He has been Visiting Fellow at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Visiting Professor at La Sapienza University of Rome. His book Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory (Chicago, 2003) won the Jean-Pierre Barricelli book prize. His most recent works are, as editor, The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism (2016) and, as author, Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics (Oxford University Press, 2013) and Orientation in European Romanticism: The Art of Falling Upwards (Cambridge University Press, 2023). p.w.a.ha[email protected] Robert W. Jones is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Leeds. His work explores the political and theatrical cultures of Georgian Britain, especially Drury Lane theatre and its owner, Richard Brinsley Sheridan. He is currently working, alongside Martyn Powell, on a multi-volume edition of The Political Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan to be published by Oxford University Press. He is also writing a monograph on the theatre, provisionally titled The Theatre of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Drury Lane, Politics and Performance 1775-1787. [email protected] Pierre Lurbe is Honorary Professor of Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Civilization at the Arts Faculty of Sorbonne Université, Paris. His research focuses Notes on Contributors 168 on political and religious thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as well as on issues of cultural transfer. He is the author of a translation and critical edition of John Toland’s Reasons for Naturalizing the Jews in Great-Britain and Ireland (Paris: PUF, 1998), and has written articles on a range of topics and authors from James Harrington to Edmund Burke and Adam Ferguson. He was President of the Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur (SAES) from 2012 to 2016, and is the current President of the Société d’études anglo-américaine des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (SEAA 17-18). [email protected] Dafydd Moore is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at the University of Plymouth, UK. He is the author of numerous books and articles on James Macpherson, The Poems of Ossian and associated questions of cultural identity in Scottish literature, and on the Cornish clergyman-poet-antiquarian-controversialist Richard Polwhele. His work on the latter includes the 2020 monograph Richard Polwhele and Romantic Culture (Routledge). D.R.Moor[email protected] Marc Porée is Emeritus Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. As a Romanticist and former co-director of The London-Paris Romanticism Seminar, he has published numerous studies and articles on Blake, Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley and Wordsworth, co-authoring a book on The Lyrical Ballads: La Différence en partage (Paris: PUF, 2011), and co-editing (with David Duff) two volumes of essays on Romantic issues with Litteraria Pragensia (2017, 2019). He has also published essays on British contemporary novelists (Kazuo Ishiguro, Hanif Kureishi, Salman Rushdie). As a translator, he has contributed to editions of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas De Quincey, Ann Radcliffe, Joseph Conrad and D.H. Lawrence, all with the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (Gallimard). He also writes reviews for various French on-line journals (En Attendant Nadeau, AOC media, etc.). [email protected] Judith Thompson is Professor Emerita / Inglis Professor of English Romantic Literature at Dalhousie University and the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. A founding member, general secretary and archivist of the John Thelwall Society, she is currently writing the first full biography of this Romantic radical orator, poet and polymath. She has previously published print editions of Thelwall’s Selected Poetry and Poetics (2015), his novels The Daughter of Adoption (2013) and The Peripatetic (2001), and a multimedia digital volume on his “dramatic Notes on Contributors 169 romance” The Fairy of the Lake (2011). She is the author of The Silenced Partner: John Thelwall in the Wordsworth Circle (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and many papers and chapters on Thelwall, including most recently “Operations and Co-operations: John Thelwall, George Birkbeck and the Movement for Public Education in Britain,” in 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (2024). judit[email protected]