George Adams, Emmanuel
Course: English
Supervisor: Professor Ross Wilson
Dissertation Title:
Particularity, ecology, and life in British Romantic-period writing, 1790-1830
Biographical Information
Before arriving at Cambridge, I studied for a BA in English Language and Literature at Merton College, Oxford, followed by a MSt in English (1700-1830) funded by a Clarendon Scholarship. My doctoral research, supervised by Professor Ross Wilson, is supported by the OOC AHRC DTP and a Vice Chancellor's award.
Research Interests
My PhD dissertation examines the role of particularity as a form of ecological attention towards the biosphere in a range of Romantic-period writing. I ask how a select group of writers – John Clare, William Blake, Charlotte Smith, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Percy Bysshe Shelley – think ecologically through their poetry, letters, and prose journals; how they observe and articulate the textures, scales, and agencies of different creatures, plants, and weather conditions, and how their strategies of feeling extend beyond the scale of human experience towards the animate ‘life of things’.
My research interests lie in Romantic-period poetics and philosophy; and nature writing, especially poetry, from 1790 to the present day.
