Professor Peter De Bolla, King's College
Biographical Information:
Research Interests:
Eighteenth Century British cultural history; the history of aesthetics; eighteenth century legal theory; philosophical aesthetics.
Areas of Graduate Supervision:
Eighteenth century literature; Wordsworth; visual culture of the enlightenment; topics in the history and theory of criticism, especially Kant, Post Structuralism, Cavell.Contributes to teaching and/or supervision for the MPhil in 18th Century and Romantic Studies and the MPhil in Criticism and Culture. See: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate/
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Selected Publications
- Aesthetics and the Work of Art, Ed. Peter De Bolla and Stefan Uhlig, Palgrave, 2008
- Peter De Bolla, The Fourth of July and the Founding of America, Profile Books, 2007
- Land, nation and culture 1740-1840: Thinking the Republic of Taste, Ed. Peter De Bolla, Nigel Leask and David Simpson, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
- Peter De Bolla, The Education of the Eye: painting, landscape and architecture in eighteenth-century Britain, Stanford University Press, 2003
- Peter De Bolla, Art Matters, Harvard University Press, 2001
- The Sublime: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory, Ed. Peter De Bolla and Andrew Ashfield, Cambridge University Press, 1996
- Peter De Bolla, The Discourse of The Sublime: Readings in History, Aesthetics and the Subject, Blackwell, 1989
- Peter De Bolla, Harold Bloom: Towards Historical Rhetorics, Routledge, 1988