Nick Williams (Email; phone 812-855-7649)
Associate Professor
PhD: Emory University, 1990
MA: Emory University
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Romanticism; Blake; Utopian Theory; Marxist and sociological criticism; aesthetics; the Sublime
PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS
Ideology and Utopia in the Poetry of William Blake ( Cambridge, 1998).
Articles and Essays:
"Eating Blake or, An Essay on Taste: The Case of Thomas Harris's Red Dragon," Cultural Critique 1999
"The Limits of Spatialized Form: Visibility and Obscurity in Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward," Utopian Studies 1999
"'Bewildering Dreams and Extravagant Fancies': The Sublime of Population in Thomas Malthus," European Romantics Review 1999
"The Dialect of Authenticity: The Case of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting," in English and the Other Languages (Rodopi, 1998)
"'The Subject of Detection': Legal Rhetoric and Subjectivity in William Godwin's Caleb Williams," Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 1997