Dr Louise Joy, Homerton
Biographical Information:
I am a fellow and Director of Studies (Part I) at Homerton College.
Research Interests:
Literature of the long eighteenth century: eighteenth-century prose fiction; literature for children and young people; literature and the emotions; literature and philosophy; didactic writing; literature and education; British responses to the French Revolution; 1790s radicalism; literature and music. I am currently completing a book on eighteenth-century didacticism and the regulation of emotion.
Areas of Graduate Supervision:
I teach on the MPhil in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies and the MPhil in Critical Approaches to Children's Literature (Education Faculty). I welcome applications from graduate students interested in working on any of the above.
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Selected Publications
- ‘From passion to affection: the art of the philosophical in eighteenth-century poetics’, Philosophy and Literature, 37: 1(2013)
- ‘Tolkien’s Language’ in The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings: a Casebook, ed. Peter Hunt (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
- ‘Morbid pathos in Isaac Watts’s Philosophy of Affectionate Religion', Literature and Theology (2012)(http://litthe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/frs058?ijkey=wGzNJ1kfy9zgklz&keytype=ref)
- ‘“Snivelling like a kid”: Edith Nesbit and the child’s tears,’ special issue, Towards a Lachrymology: Tears in Literature & Cultural History, ed. Tim Webb, Litteraria Pragenzia: Studies in Literature and Culture, 22:43 (2012)
- ‘Emotions in Translation: Helen Maria Williams and British femininity’, Studies in Romanticism, 50 (Spring 2011), 145-171
- ‘Novel Feelings: Emma Courtney’s Point of View,’ European Romantic Review, 21: 2 (2010), 221-234
- Poetry and Childhood, eds. Morag Styles, Louise Joy, David Whitley. Foreword, Andrew Motion (Trentham Press, 2010)
- ‘Wordsworth and Mournful Adolescence’ in Poetry and Childhood, eds. Morag Styles, Louise Joy, David Whitley. Foreword, Andrew Motion (Trentham Press, 2010), pp. 55-61
- ‘Saint Leon and the Culture of the Heart,’ History of European Ideas, 33 (2007), 40-53