John Morton
Courses
The Novel: History and Identity (Course convener)
Reading Key Texts (Course convener)
Culture, Theory and Context: Fictions and Visual Narratives
Culture, Theory and Context: Poetry and Drama
Ideas in Practice
Lecturer in English
Recent Publications
Tel: 020 8331 8979
Email: j.s.morton@gre.ac.uk
Office: King William 225
Office Hours
Monday 3:00-5:00 pm
Wednesday 12:00-1:30 pm
And other times by appointment (please email)
Qualifications
BA (Hons) English Language and Literature - Oxford University
MA in English Literature (Nineteenth-Century Studies) - King's College London
PhD in English Literature - University College London
Research Interests
The literary afterlife of Alfred Tennyson; the 'death industries' of novelists, 1870-1950; Victorian and Modernist literature; allusions to poetry in works of fiction; historical fiction, especially novels set in the 1980s; book history and reception history; the 'Aesthetic movement' and its discontents, 1840-1910; J.M. Coetzee; Alan Hollinghurst; Ali Smith.
Tennyson Among the Novelists (Continuum, 2010)
An academic monograph investigating allusions to Tennyson in the work of novelists from the Victorian period to the present day. http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=134330&SearchType=Basic
‘Virginia Woolf and Tennyson: Remembering the Victorians’, Acts of Memory: the Victorians and Beyond ed. Serena Trowbridge and Ryan Barnett(Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011).
‘Tennyson at 200: The Bicentenary of the Victorian Laureate’, Literature Compass 7/9 (2010), 867-882. Commissioned in 2009.
'T.S. Eliot and Tennyson', Tennyson Among the Poets ed. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and Seamus Perry (Oxford: OUP, 2009)
http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199557134.do?keyword=tennyson&sortby=bestMatches
'Tennyson and the Great War', Tennyson Research Bulletin 8.5 (November 2006) 353-368.
'Dead Poets and Society', review of Samantha Matthews's Poetical Remains: Poets Graves, Bodies and Books in the Nineteenth Century, Essays In Criticism 55.2 (April 2005), 184-192.
I am a reviewer for English Studies, and have reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement and Time Out; I have also contributed to the Guardian Books Blog.