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Professor Aidan Day

Contact Details

E-Mail : A.Z.Day@dundee.ac.uk
Telephone: (01382) 38-4543
Room Location: 3.2, Tower Extension

Aidan Day came to Dundee in 2007. Before that he was Professor of British Literature and Culture at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, 2001-7 and Professor of Nineteenth Century and Contemporary Literature at the University of Edinburgh, 1999-2001.

Research Interests

Professor Day's research specialisms are in Nineteenth Century British Literature and in Post-1945 Literatures in English. His research focus on topics from both the Nineteenth and the Twentieth/Twenty First Centuries is a part of his interest in tracing the historical development of literary perspectives and ideas from the late Enlightenment/Romantic period through to the present.

His critical books are Tennyson's Scepticism (2005), Angela Carter: The Rational Glass (1998) and Jokerman: Reading the Lyrics of Bob Dylan (1988). In 1996 he published a critical-historical study, Romanticism. He is co-editor of a 31 volume annotated facsimile edition of Tennyson's poetical manuscripts, The Tennyson Archive (1987-93).

Book cover of Tennyson's Scepticis
Book cover of The New Critical Idiom: Romanticism
Book cover of Angela Carter: The Rational Glass

Publications

Books

Tennyson's Scepticism (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), ix + 225 pp.

Angela Carter: The Rational Glass (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998), 224 pp.

Romanticism, The New Critical Idiom (London: Routledge, 1996), xii + 217pp.

Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems, ed. (London: Penguin, 1991; updated and reprinted, 2003), xviii + 376 pp.

Robert Browning: Selected Poetry and Prose, ed. with Critical Introduction and Chronology (London: Routledge, 1991), 192 pp.

Jokerman: Reading the Lyrics of Bob Dylan (Oxford: Blackwell, 1988), 224 pp.

The Tennyson Archive, ed. with Christopher B. Ricks, 31 vols (New York; London: Garland Publishing, 1987-1993)

Selected Articles & Book Chapters

'Parodying Postmodernism: Muriel Spark (The Driver's Seat) and Robbe-Grillet (Jealousy)', English (Journal of the English Association), 56:216 (Autumn 2007), 321-37

'Looking for Nothing: Dylan Now', in 'Do You Mr Jones': Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors, ed. by Neil Corcoran (London: Chatto and Windus, 2002), pp. 275-93.

'Ballard and Baudrillard: Close Reading Crash', English (Journal of the English Association), 49:195 (Autumn 2000), 277-93