Dr Stefan H. Uhlig, King's
Biographical Information:
I graduated from Cambridge in 1993, and received my Cambridge Ph.D. in 2001. My core teaching is on eighteenth-century and Romantic literary writing. I also teach aspects of the history and theory of literary criticism, Greek tragedy, moral thought, and interactions between text and image.
Research Interests:
My chief interest is the history of literary studies, and its complex lineage in the traditions of poetics, rhetoric, and literary historiography. I also work on broader issues in aesthetics, and on poets like Gray, Wordsworth, or Goethe who reflect compellingly on the nature of their work.
Areas of Graduate Supervision:
I have supervised doctoral dissertations on the turn to reading in modern literary criticism and on Methodist literary culture. Past M.Phil. students have worked on Coleridge and organic metaphor, Stanley Cavell, De Quincey, Cowper's hymns, and Barbauld's poetry of action.
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Selected Publications
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Wordsworth’s Poetic Theory: Knowledge, Language, Experience, introduced and edited with Alexander Regier (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
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Aesthetics and the Work of Art: Adorno, Kafka, Richter, introduced and edited with Peter de Bolla (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
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‘Ferguson's School for Literature’, in The Poetic Enlightenment: Poetry and Human Science, 1650-1820, ed. Tom Jones and Rowan Boyson (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013), pp. 43-57.
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‘The Long Goodbye to Rhetoric’, in REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature. Volume 28: Mobility in Literature and Culture, 1500-1900, ed. Ingo Berensmeyer, Christoph Ehland, and Herbert Grabes (Tübingen: Narr, 2012), pp. 237-64.
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‘Historiography or Rhetoric? A Road (Not) Taken in the Evolution of the Literary Field’, in The Canonical Debate Today: Crossing Disciplinary and Cultural Boundaries, ed. Theo D’Haen, David Damrosch, and Liviu Papadima (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2011), pp. 215-26.
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‘Critical Mutism in Kant and Wordsworth’, in Imitatio – Inventio: The Rise of ‘Literature’ from Early to Classic Modernity (Bucharest: Romanian Cultural Institute, 2010), pp. 344-53.
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‘Wordsworth and Poetic Objecthood’, in Wordsworth’s Poetic Theory: Knowledge, Language, Experience, ed. Stefan H. Uhlig and Alexander Regier (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 36-42.
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‘Wordsworth, Gray, and the Ordinary Life of Poetry’, in The Meaning of ‘Life’ in Romantic Poetry and Poetics, ed. Ross Wilson (New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. 33-56.
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‘Improving Talk? The Promises of Conversation’, in Conversation in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1688-1848, ed. Katie Halsey and Jane Slinn (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2008), pp. 1-19.
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‘Changing Fields: The Directions of Goethe’s Weltliteratur’, in Debating World Literature, ed. Christopher Prendergast (London: Verso, 2004), pp. 26-53.
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‘What is the History of Literature?’, in Scholarly Environments: Centres of Learning and Institutional Contexts, 1560-1960, ed. Alasdair MacDonald and Arend H. Huussen, Jr. (Leuven: Peeters, 2004), pp. 121-33.
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Review of Frederick Burwick and James C. McKusick, ed., Faustus: From the German of Goethe. Translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007), The Review of English Studies, 61:251 (2010), pp. 645-8
- Review of David Marshall, The Frame of Art: Fictions of Aesthetic Experience, 1750-1815 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), Modern Philology, 105:2 (November 2007), pp. 381-5.