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Daniel Cook

Dr Daniel Cook

Contact Details

E-Mail: D.P.Cook@dundee.ac.uk
Telephone: (01382) 38-4415
Room Location: 3.8, Tower Extension

Dr Daniel Cook joined the English programme at the University of Dundee in September 2012.  For the academic year 2011-12 he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the USA, as well as a research fellow at Harvard.  Between 2009 and 2011 he held a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship at the University of Bristol and, before that, an AHRC funded Research Fellowship on the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift (18 vols). Daniel completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge with a thesis on the reception history of 'the marvellous boy' Thomas Chatterton.  This forms the basis of his first monograph, The Pride of Genius, which pursues issues surrounding authorship and reception in the Romantic period. He is now writing a new book on the vexed notion of 'literary property' since 1700.

Dr Cook's research interests include:

Dr Cook convenes Level 1 on our undergraduate programme, as well as the English Studies MLitt, and so would be delighted to hear from any prospective students.

Publications

Books

The Pride of Genius: Reading Thomas Chatterton, 1760-1830 (forthcoming 2012), 258 pp.

Edited Volumes

Women’s Life Writing, 1700-1850: Gender, Genre, Authorship, ed. with Amy Culley (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 250 pp.

The Lives of Jonathan Swift, ed., 3 vols (London and New York: Routledge, 2011), 1,669 pp.

Jonathan Swift, ed. with Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House, 2009), 207 pp.

Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins, The Victim of Fancy, ed., Chawton House Library Series: Women’s Novels (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 119 pp.

Articles & Book Chapters

‘Publishing posthumous Swift: Deane Swift to Walter Scott’, in Jonathan Swift, the Text and the Book, ed. by Paddy Bullard and James McLaverty (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 22 pp.

‘The Beauties of Byron and Shelley’, Romantic Adaptations, ed. Cian Duffy (forthcoming 2013), 19 pp.

‘Cadenus and Vanessa: The Self-Conscious Muse’, Reading Swift: Papers from the Sixth Münster Symposium on Swift, ed. by Hermann J. Real (Munich: Fink, 2013), 20 pp.

‘An Authoress to be Let: Reading Laetitia Pilkington’s Memoirs’, in Women’s Life Writing, 1700-1850: Gender, Genre, Authorship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 56-75.

‘On Genius and Authorship: Addison to Hazlitt’, The Review of English Studies (2012), 26 pp.

‘Labor ipse voluptas: John Nichols’s Swiftiana’, in From Compositors to Collectors: Essays on Book-Trade History, ed. by John Hinks and Matthew Day (Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2011), pp. 43-60.

‘Authors Unformed: Reading “Beauties” in the Eighteenth Century’, Philological Quarterly, 89:2&3 (2010 [2011]), 283-309 [2011 winner of The Hardin Craig Prize for best essay]

‘Authenticity among Hacks: Thomas Chatterton’s Memoirs of a Sad Dog and Magazine Culture’, in Romanticism, Sincerity and Authenticity, ed. by Timothy Milnes and Kerry Sinanan (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 80-98.

‘The Victims of Sensibility: Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins and Jane Austen’, Transactions of the Jane Austen Society (special issue: Sense & Sensibility) (2010), 18-40

‘Dr. Johnson’s Heart’, The Cambridge Quarterly, 39:2 (2010), 186-195

‘Tyrwhitt’s Rowley and Authorial Editing’, The Library, 7th series, 11:4 (2010), 447-467

‘The Critical and the Curious: Thomas Chatterton’s First Reviewers’, Romanticism, 15:2 (2009), 109-120

‘The Cost of Criticism’, The Cambridge Quarterly, 38:4 (2009), 397-401

‘D’Israeli’s Peritext: A Preface to Romantic-Period Scholarship’, Working with English, 4:1, The Romantic-Period Paratext, ed. Ourania Chatsiou (2008), 39-56

Notes and Encyclopedia Entries

P. Bullard, D. Cook, A. Rounce, The Jonathan Swift Archive (Cambridge University Press).

‘Eighteenth-Century Poetry: an overview’, ‘Alexander Pope’, ‘Jonathan Swift’, ‘Daniel Defoe’, ‘Henry Fielding’ in The Eighteenth-Century Literature Handbook (Literature & Culture Handbooks), ed. by Gary Day and Bridget Keegan (London: Continuum, 2009).

‘Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 1802’ and ‘The Leech Gatherer (Wordsworth)’, ‘I remember, I remember (Thomas Hood)’, ‘Mrs. Robinson to the poet Coleridge (Mary Robinson)’, ‘John Keats’, ‘Isabella Lickbarrow’, ‘Robert Southey’, ‘Adonais (Shelley)’ in A Companion to Literary Romanticism, ed. by Andrew Maunder (New York: Facts on File, 2009).

‘Corn from the Cobb: The Lymiad’, The Times Literary Supplement (TLS), no. 5699 (22 June 2012).

‘Charlotte Smith’s The Emigrants’ and ‘William Wordsworth’s The Thorn’ in The Literary Encyclopedia (English Literature), ed. by Daniel Robinson (2013).

‘Intellectual Property’, ‘Genius’, ‘Biography’ and ‘Thomas Tyrwhitt’ in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of British Literature, 1660-1789 (Criticism and Culture), ed. by Philip J. Smallwood, Gary Day and Jack Lynch (Oxford: Blackwell, 2013).

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