Monday, December 2, 4:00 p.m. in LC 317. The English Department Eighteenth-Century British Literature Series presents: Professor David Womersley.
David Womersley has interests in the ‘long eighteenth century,’ and also to a lesser extent in the early modern period. He was a General Editor of the CUP ‘Complete Writings of Jonathan Swift’, for which he edited the volume devoted to Gulliver’s Travels (CUP, 2012). Two current research projects are: first, a reading of English literature of the period 1760-1788 in the context of the public language of colonial tension and war; and second, a reading of Defoe’s novels against the backdrop of his earlier involvement in public affairs. David is also the General Editor of the ‘Thomas Hollis Library,’ published by Liberty Fund of Indianapolis. The series publishes modern editions of a selection of the most important books sent by the Whig Thomas Hollis to the library of Harvard College, in order to nourish and direct the attachment of the colonists to liberty.