Dr Richard Adelman - Lecturer
Contact Details
E-Mail : R.Adelman@dundee.ac.uk
Telephone: (01382) 38-4411
Room Location: 3.15, Tower Extension
Richard joined the English Department in 2010, following teaching positions at University College London and the University of York, and a research fellowship at the University of Edinburgh. He received his PhD from York in 2008, after taking his MSc at Edinburgh and his BA at York.
Research Interests
Richard’s research interests include:
- Theories of labour, idleness and contemplation;
- German Idealism in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain;
- Scottish Enlightenment philosophy;
- Early Science-Fiction.
Richard’s research focuses on ideas of idleness and labour, and on the connections between literary writing and social philosophy, both across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He is the author of Idleness, Contemplation, & the Aesthetic, 1750-1830 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), which charts the development of a British idealism around the turn of the nineteenth century, and is currently working on a companion piece to this book, a study of the decay of idealist aesthetics in Britain between 1830 and 1910.
Publications
Books
Idleness, Contemplation, & the Aesthetic, 1750-1830 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Articles & Book Chapters
“Idle Thought in Wordsworth’s Lucy Cycle”, Romanticism, 17:1 (2011), 94-105.
“Idle Contemplation in Shelley’s ‘Mont Blanc’” (Keats-Shelley Journal, forthcoming, 2013).
“Idleness and Creativity: Poetic Disquisitions on Idleness in Between Neo-Clacissism and Romanticism”, in Otiose Leisure: Idleness & Indolence in British Literature, ed. by M. Fludernik & M. Nandi (forthcoming, 2013).
“Repose & Reverie in J. M. Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K” (forthcoming).
“Extending the Aesthetic: Matthew Arnold and Friedrich Schiller” (forthcoming).
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