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Profile: Clement Hawes
Title: Professor
Degree:
Ph.D., Yale 1986
Ph.D., Yale 1986
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Research Interests
Primary Interests
Field(s) of Study:
Restoration and Eighteenth-century satire; the early modern novel; eighteenth-century visual caricature; 'madness' and early modern political rhetoric; travel and travelogues; early imperialism and resistance; the Anglo-Irish eighteenth century; the Enlightenment.
Publications
His
publications include, in addition to numerous articles, the two
monographs Mania and Literary Style: The Rhetoric of
Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher
Smart (Cambridge,1996) and The
British Eighteenth Century and Global
Critique (2005); and the three edited
volumes Christopher Smart and the
Enlightenment (St.Martin's,
1999), Gulliver's
Travels and Other Writings (Houghton
Mifflin, 2003), and Europe Observed: Multiple Gazes in
Early Modern Encounters (Bucknell, 2008), coedited with Kumkum
Chatterjee. Among his works in progress is a monograph about
geographical scale as a mode of inquiry and justification in the long
eighteenth century. He is also coediting, along with Robert
Caserio, The Cambridge History of the English
Novel.
Additional Info
Biography:
Clement Hawes holds a joint position in History and English. He specializes in British literature and history 1660-1800, writing broadly about the problematic of periodizing the Enlightenment and more closely about such authors as Jonathan Swift and Christopher Smart. One of his consistent interests has been in the literature of enthusiasm harking back to the English Revolution, which produced such unprecedented writers as the "Ranter" Abiezer Coppe. Another preoccupation has been with the cultural dynamics of early empire: the making of an imperial Britishness as it informs historical narrative and explanation. Recently he has expanded on a personal liking for travel by studying early modern travelogues. Professor Hawes was educated at Yale University (Ph.D., English literature, 1986) and Hendrix College (B.A., English Literature, 1978).
Clement Hawes holds a joint position in History and English. He specializes in British literature and history 1660-1800, writing broadly about the problematic of periodizing the Enlightenment and more closely about such authors as Jonathan Swift and Christopher Smart. One of his consistent interests has been in the literature of enthusiasm harking back to the English Revolution, which produced such unprecedented writers as the "Ranter" Abiezer Coppe. Another preoccupation has been with the cultural dynamics of early empire: the making of an imperial Britishness as it informs historical narrative and explanation. Recently he has expanded on a personal liking for travel by studying early modern travelogues. Professor Hawes was educated at Yale University (Ph.D., English literature, 1986) and Hendrix College (B.A., English Literature, 1978).
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