Dr Mina Gorji, Pembroke
Biographical Information:
Research Interests:
Literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth century and especially poetry. Current research interests include: literary vulgarity; the relationship between literary and spoken language; the poetics of anthology; literature and popular culture.
Areas of Graduate Supervision:
Eighteenth-century and Romantic literature and culture. Authors of particular interest: Clare, Keats, Wordsworth, Byron, Burns, Crabbe, Hone, Hazlitt, Gay. Areas of Interest include: poetics, allusion, polite and popular culture, literary language, rural writing, the exotic, working class literature and print culture, canon formation, literature and national identities, Primitivism. Contributes to teaching and supervision for the MPhil in 18th Century and Romantic Studies.
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Selected Publications
- Mina Gorji, John Clare and the Place of Poetry, Liverpool University Press, 2008
- Mina Gorji, "Everyday Poetry: William Hone's Popular Anthology", Romanticism and Popular Culture, Ed. Phillip Connell and Nigel Leask, 2008
- Mina Gorji (ed.), Rude Britannia, Ed. Mina Gorji, Routledge, 2007
- Mina Gorji, "Gothic Heritage", TEXTUS 2/2007, Nation(s) and Cultural Heritage, Ed. Maria Rita Cifarelli and Jane Garnett, 2007
- "John Gay, The Shepherd's Week", A Companion to Eighteenth Century Poetry, Ed. Christine Gerrard, Blackwell Publishing, 2006, 145-156
- "Burying Bloomfield: Poetical Remains and 'the unlettered' muse'", Robert Bloomfield: Lyric, Class, and the Romantic Canon, ed. Simon White, John Goodridge and Bridget Keegan, Bucknell University Press, 2006, 232-252
- Mina Gorji, "Clare’s Merry England", John Clare Society Journal 25, 2005, 2-24
- "Clare's Awkwardness", Essays in Criticism 54.3, 2004, 216-39
- Mina Gorji, "The Savage in Our City: Interrogating Civility at the Royal Academy", Third Text 66, 2004, 41-50
- Mina Gorji, "Writing out of 'Inclosure': John Clare, the 'Old Poets' and The London Magazine", John Clare: New Approaches, Ed. John Goodridge and Simon Kovesi, 2000