Professor Paul Hamilton, MA (Glas) MA DPhil (Oxford)
Professor of English
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8558
email: p.w.a.hamilton@qmul.ac.uk
Research interests:
- Romanticism
- Relations between Philosophy, Political Theory and Literature
Paul Hamilton's research is primarily on Enlightenment and Romantic thought and literature. He is particularly interested in the relations between literature, philosophy and political theory. He has also written on critical theory generally and the transitions between modernism and postmodernism. His most recent monograph was 'Metaromanticism' (Chicago, 2003) which explored historical transformations of the Romantic aesthetic. He has also published books on Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley and Historicism. His current work is towards a comparative study of European romanticism. He is also finishing a book on Coleridge and German philosophy.
'Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic' by Paul Hamilton
Publications:
(Recent publications)
Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic (London: Continuum, 2007)
Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2003)
Historicism, second edition (London: Routledge, 2003)
‘Poetic Astonishment: a Romantic Genealogy', in From Wordsworth to Stevens: Essays in Honour of Robert RehderI, ed by Anthony Mortimer (Bern: Peter Lang, 2005), pp 123-141
‘Hazlitt and the Kings of Speech', in Metaphysical Hazlitt: Bicentenary Essays, ed by Uttara Natarajan, Tom Paulin, and Duncan Wu (London: Routledge, 2005), pp 68-80
'Wordsworth and Romanticism', in The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth, ed by Stephen Gill (Cambridge: CUP, 2003)
'Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory' by Paul Hamilton
‘Coleridge and the “Rifacciamento” of Philosophy', in Coleridge, Friendship and the Origins of Modernity, ed by Michael John Kooy and Peter Larkin: European Romantic Review, 14:4 (December 2003), 417-31
‘Afterword: the republican prompt: connections in English radical culture', in Radicalism in British Culture, 1650-1830, ed by Timothy Morton and Nigel Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp 201-216
'The Philosopher', in The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge, ed by Lucy Newlyn (Cambridge: CUP, 2002), pp 170-186
'Historicism and historical criticism', in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, ed by C Norris and C Knellwolf (Cambridge: CUP, 2001), pp 17-31
'Shelley, Leopardi and the writing of nihilism: from the Pensieri to The Triumph of Life’, in Leopardi and the Book in the Age of Romanticism, a cura di Michael Caesar e Franco d'Intino (Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2000), pp 303-319