General

I came to Warwick in 2007 after over a decade in the English Faculty at Oxford where I was Margaret Candfield Fellow in English at University College (the one that threw Shelley out for atheism 200 years ago) and Professor of Literature of the Romantic Period. Prior to moving to Oxford, I was a Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University. I did my undergraduate degree at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne followed by a PhD at Cambridge. I was a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, before I moved to Australia in 1991.

 

I have just published Conversable Worlds: Literature, Contention, and Community 1762-1830 (Oxford University Press) based on research funded by a Phillip J. Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. It was nominated for the Louis Gottschalk Prize of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. During the course of working on the book, I held fellowships at the University of Chicago (2008), the Yale Centre for British Art (2009), and the Australian National University (2009). I have also recently published The Cambridge Introduction to Charles Dickens and an essay on 'Popular Radical Culture' in The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s. I have recently been awarded a Leverhulme Major Project Grant to form a group to work on 'Networks of Improvement: Literary Clubs and Societies, 1760-1840'.

 

I am co-Director of the Eighteenth Century Centre at Warwick.

 

Research interests

Culture and politics in the long romantic period (1760-1832); social romanticism, especially in relation to clubs and societies as a field of literary production; space into place in romantic period London; gender and sociability in the Romantic period; British popular radicalism in the 1790s, especially in relation to politics, print and sociability; literature, censorship, and the law; Marxist literary theory; communicative ethics and literature; William Blake; Anna Laetitia Barbauld; Thomas Paine; Mary Hays; Mary Wollstonecraft; William Godwin, the Joseph Johnson circle and Rational Dissent; Robert Merry; Charles "Louse' Pigott; John Thelwall; William Hazlitt; Charles Dickens; Dickens and film; the contemporary Indian novel in English.

 

Selected publications

 

Conversable Worlds: Literature, Contention, and Community, 1762-1832. Oxford University Press. 2011 has been nominated for the Louis Gottschalk Prize of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies and James Russell Lowell the of the Modern Language Association of America.

 

Ed. with David Fallon, Romanticism and Revolution: A Reader (Blackwell, 2011).

The Cambridge Introduction to Charles Dickens (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Ed. with Colin Jones and Josephine McDonagh, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities and the French Revolution (Palgrave 2009).

Ed. with Tone Brekke, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters from Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, Oxford World's Classics (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Ed. with Sarah Haggarty, Blake and Conflict (Palgrave, 2009).

Ed. with John Barrell, Trials for Treason and Sedition, 1792-4, 8 vols (Pickering and Chatto, 2006-7).

Ed. with Thomas Keymer, The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830 (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Romanticism, Enthusiasm, and Regulation: Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period (Oxford University Press, 2003)

Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s (Oxford University Press, 1992)

 

Teaching and supervision

This year (2011-12) I will be running a new module 'Romanticism, Revolution and Reaction' which covers the relationship between literature, culture and politics from 1789 to c. 1822. Please see module page for further details.

I also teach MA courses on 'Charles Dickens: Novels, Journalism, Adaptation' and 'Literature, Revolution and Print Culture in the 1790s'

Enquiries about graduate supervision are welcome on any topic in the period 1760-1832 (the long romantic period) or on Charles Dickens (the novels, the journalism, and/or adaptations). Please email me with any queries in this regard.

Professor of Romanticism Studies

H529; j.a.mee@warwick.ac.uk

 

For the audio guide to Letters from Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, Oxford World's Classics (Oxford University Press, 2009). Go tohttp://podularity.com/oxford-worlds-classics-audio-guides/mary-wollstonecraft-letters-written-in-sweden-norway-and-denmark-an-audio-guide/