Dr. Fred Parker
Biography
Fred Parker is a Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge, where he directs studies in English.
Research Interests
Eighteenth-century and Romantic literature; relations between literature and philosophy (epistemology, ethics, Enlightenment); reception of classical literature in the eighteenth century, esp. mock-heroic; Milton; theories and representations of selfhood in relation to life-writing. Currently working on the figure of the witness in tragedy (mostly Shakespeare, but ranging widely); a book is forthcoming.
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Publications
Fred Parker, 'Love’s Object, or, Unrequitable Love: reflections on the literature of passion between Rousseau and Percy Shelley', Espacio, Tiempo y Forma, 36: 41-64 (2023). Available at: https://doi.org/10.5944/etfiv.36.2023
Fred Parker, 'Johnson's Lives of the Poets: a guided tour', in The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, ed. Greg Clingham, CUP, 2022.
Fred Parker, ‘Byron's 'Popifying' : Twice-Told Tales’, in Byron among the English Poets, ed. Clare Bucknell and Matthew Ward, OUP, 2021.
Fred Parker, ‘Addison’s Modesty, or, The Essayist as Spectator’, in Joseph Addison: Tercentenary Essays, ed. Paul Davis, OUP, 2020.
Fred Parker, ‘The sociable philosopher: David Hume and the philosophical essay’, in On Essays: Montaigne to the Present, ed. Kathryn Murphy and Thomas Karshan, OUP, 2020.
Fred Parker, ‘Comedy’, in Blake in Context, ed. Sarah Haggarty, CUP, 2019.
Fred Parker, On Declaring Love: Eighteenth-Century Literature and Jane Austen, Routledge, 2018.
Fred Parker, ‘Gibbon’s Style in the Decline and Fall’, in The Cambridge Companion to Edward Gibbon, ed. Karen O’Brien, CUP, 2018.
Fred Parker, ‘Open Borders: Paradise Lost, Politics, and Poetry’ in The Use of English 68.3 (2017).
Fred Parker, ‘Philosophy’, in Samuel Johnson in Context, ed. Jack Lynch, CUP, 2011.
Fred Parker, The Devil as Muse: Blake, Byron and the Adversary, Baylor University Press, 2011
Fred Parker, "'We are perpetually moralists': Johnson and moral philosophy", Samuel Johnson After 300 Years, ed. Greg Clingham and Philip Smallwood, CUP, 2009
Fred Parker, "Classic Simplicity", Translation and the Classic, ed. Vanda Zajko and Aleka Lianeri, OUP, 2009
Fred Parker, "What matters in English Literature?", Arts and Humanities in Higher Education 4.2, 2005, 137-48
Fred Parker, "'Talking Scripture out of Church': Parson Adams and the Practicality of Translation", Translation and Literature 14.2, 2005, 179-95
Fred Parker, Scepticism and Literature: An Essay on Pope, Hume, Sterne and Johnson, OUP, 2003, 290
Fred Parker, "Johnson and the Lives of Poets", The Cambridge Quarterly XXIX, no. 4, 2000, 323-37
Fred Parker, "Shakespeare's Argument with Montaigne", The Cambridge Quarterly XXVIII No 1, 1999, 1-18
Fred Parker, "The Skepticism of Johnson's Rasselas", The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, Cambridge University Press, 1997, 127-42, ch. 9
Fred Parker, Johnson's Shakespeare, OUP, 1989