Prof. Louise Joy
Biography
I am a College Professor at Homerton College, where I direct studies for Part IB. I completed my PhD and MPhil at the University of Cambridge, following an undergraduate degree at the University of Bristol. In 2013 I was a CRASSH Early Career Fellow, and in 2015 held a visiting research fellowship at Princeton. In 2020, I held the Crausaz Wordsworth Fellowship at CRASSH.
Research Interests
My current research is in the history, theory and practice of psychoanalysis.
Areas of Graduate Supervision
I welcome applications from graduate students interested in working on any aspect relating to my research.
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Publications
Books
Women's Literary Education, 1690-1850, ed. with Jessica Lim (Edinburgh University Press, 2023), pp. i-346
Eighteenth-Century Literary Affections (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), pp. i-215
Literature’s Children: The Critical Child and the Art of Idealisation (London: Bloomsbury, 2019), pp. i-247
The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry: A Study of Children's Verse in English, introduced and co-edited with Katherine Wakely-Mulroney (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018), p. 1-264
Poetry and Childhood, ed. with Morag Styles and David Whitley. Foreword, Andrew Motion (Trentham Press, 2010)
Articles and Book Chapters
'Affect', in Keywords for Children's Literature and Culture, 2nd edition, eds. Lissa Paul, Philip Nel and Nina Christensen (New York: New York University Press, 2021), pp. 7-12
'Education and Childhood', in William Blake in Context, ed. Sarah Haggarty (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 254-261
'Eighteenth-Century Children's Poetry and the Complexity of the Child's Mind', in Literary Cultures and Eighteenth-Century Childhoods, ed. Andrew O'Malley (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2019), pp. 117-138
‘The Laughing Child’, in The Aesthetics of Children’s Poetry: A Study of Children’s Verse in English, ed. with Katherine Wakely-Mulroney (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2018), pp. 111-127
‘“Face to face” or “side by side”? Eroticised friendship in Malcolm Saville’s Lone Pine series’, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, 14:1 (Spring 2016), 41-58
‘Relative obscurity: the emotions of words, paint and sound in eighteenth-century literary criticism', History of European Ideas, 40: 5 (July 2014), 644-661
‘Tolkien’s Language’, in J.R.R. Tolkien, ed. Peter Hunt (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 74-87
‘Morbid pathos in Isaac Watts’s Philosophy of Affectionate Religion’, Literature and Theology, 27:3 (September 2013), 297–312
‘From passion to affection: the art of the philosophical in eighteenth-century poetics’, Philosophy and Literature, 37:1 (April 2013), 72-87
‘“Snivelling like a kid”: Edith Nesbit and the child’s tears’, in Towards a Lachrymology: Tears in Literature & Cultural History, ed. Tim Webb, Litteraria Pragenzia: Studies in Literature and Culture, 22:43 (2012), 128-143
‘Emotions in Translation: Helen Maria Williams and British femininity’, Studies in Romanticism, 50:1 (Spring 2011), 145-171
‘Novel Feelings: Emma Courtney’s Point of View,’ European Romantic Review, 21:2 (2010), 221-234
‘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