Mr William St Clair

Contact details

Name:

Mr William St Clair

Qualifications:

FBA

Position/Fellowship type:

Senior Research Fellow

Institute:

Institute of English Studies

Location:

Room 256 Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU

Phone:

0207 664 4877

Email address:

ws214@cam.ac.uk

Website:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_St_Clair

Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:

English Literature, History of the book

Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date	Details
01-Jan-2011	"The Publication of William Godwin's Letters and Diaries" The Literary Review Review July 2011
01-Jan-2010	"History of the Book" Chapters International Conference: Language, Culture and Society in Russian / English Studies, Senate House London.
01-Jan-2010	'Metaphors of Intellectual Property' Chapters 'Metaphors of Intellectual Property' in Privilege and Property. Essays on the History of Copyright, eds. Lionel Bently, Ronan Deazley & Martin Kretschmer (Open Book 2010).
01-Jan-2010	'At the Boundaries of the Reading Nation' Chapters 'At the Boundaries of the Reading Nation', in The History of Reading, edited by Shafquat Towheed, Rosalind Crone & Katherine Halsey (Routledge, 2010).
01-Jan-2010	Review of Lucia Patrizia Gunning, The British Consular Service in the Aegean and the Collection of Antiquities for the British Museum; in History Today Review Review of Lucia Patrizia Gunning, The British Consular Service in the Aegean and the Collection of Antiquities for the British Museum; in History Today, July 2010, 62-63.
01-Jan-2010	'Taking care of Keats': Sue Brown, Joseph Severn, A Life, the Rewards of Friendship Review 'Taking care of Keats': Sue Brown, Joseph Severn, A Life, the Rewards of Friendship, in Literary Review, May 2010, 31-32.
01-Jan-2010	'With Feeling': Tim Blanning Review 'With Feeling': Tim Blanning, The Romantic Revolution, in Literary Review, September 2010, 26-7. By such remarks, Romanticism, which started as a revolt against the empire of cant - a protest that the world did not fit the stories told about it - risks being co-opted as an ally of the currently modish attack on Enlightenment values, with its atavistic, reactionary agenda built on some fantasy of a pre-modern agrarian society, anti-science, anti-modernity, and ultimately anti-intellectual.'
01-Jan-2009	'Following up The Reading Nation' Chapters 'Following up The Reading Nation' in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Volume VI, 1830-1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
01-Jan-2009	'Imperial Appropriations of the Parthenon' Chapters 'Imperial Appropriations of the Parthenon', in Imperialism, Art and Restitution , ed. John Henry Merryman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). Chinese translation published by Tongji University Press, 2009.
01-Jan-2008	Goethe's Faust and Coleridge. Papers A Review Essay', with Roger Paulin and Elinor Shaffer (London: Institute of English Studies, 2008)
01-Jan-2008	'Publishing, Authorship, and Reading' Chapters 'Publishing, Authorship, and Reading' in The Cambridge Companion to Fiction of the Romantic Period (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
01-Jan-2008	'The Spirit of his Age': Duncan Wu, William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man Review 'The Spirit of his Age': Duncan Wu, William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man, in Literary Review, November 2008, 9-10.
01-Jan-2006	The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade Monographs The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade (London: Profile, 2006). Published in the U.S. as The Door of No Return, The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (New York, N.Y.: Bluebridge, 2007). Based on a huge archive of original documents previously scarcely explored.
01-Jan-2004	'Rivals for the Ruined Piles' Review Review article that discusses Robin Middleton's edition of Julien-David Le Roy, The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments in Greece (Getty Research Institute Texts & Documents Series, translation) and Stuart and Revett; in TLS no. 5302, 12 November 2004.
01-Jan-2004	'The Parthenon in 1687: New Sources ' Chapters 'The Parthenon in 1687: New Sources' with Robert Picken, in The Parthenon and its Sculpture , ed. Michael Cosmopoulos (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
01-Jan-2004	The Road to St. Julien The Letters of a Stretcher-Bearer from The Great War Edited Book The Road to St. Julien The Letters of a Stretcher-Bearer from The Great War by William St. Clair, ed. John St Clair (Barnsley: Pen & Sword Books, 2004). William St Clair was William St Clair's uncle.
01-Jan-2002	Conduct Literature for Women, 1640-1710 Edited Book Conduct Literature for Women, 1640-1710 , eds. William St Clair & Irmgard Maassen (6 Volumes) (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2002).
01-Jan-2002	Mapping Lives: The Uses of Biography Edited Book Mapping Lives: The Uses of Biography , eds. Peter France & William St Clair (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy 2002). Essays on the nature of biography commissioned as part of the centenary celebrations of the British Academy. William St. Clair's essay is 'The Biographer as Archaeologist.'
01-Jan-2000	Conduct Literature for Women, 1500-1640 Edited Book Conduct Literature for Women, 1500-1640 , eds. William St Clair & Irmgard Maassen (6 Volumes) (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2000).
01-Jan-1998	Lord Elgin and the Marbles Monographs Lord Elgin and the Marbles (London: Oxford University Press, 1967; 3rd Revised Edition, 1998). Translated into Italian, French and Greek.
	The Political Economy of Reading Articles The Political Economy of Reading, John Coffin Memorial Lecture in the History of the Book (London: School of Advanced Study, 2005). An edited printed version was published in the Times Literary Supplement, no 5380, 12 May 2006.

Relevant Events

Related events:

Date	Details
01-Jan-2011	'The political economy of literature,' Humboldt-Universität and Großbritannienzentrum July 2011
01-Jan-2011	Television, 2010. Sky Greece. Talking head in the 8 part series on the Greek Revolution, '1821.' Published in 2011 as DVD
01-Jan-2010	'Lessons from the long history of copyright' A talk given at 'Copyrights and Wrongs', an event hosted by the British Academy, 27 October 2010.
01-Jan-2010	'The perils of "book history" Perils of Print Culture Conference, Trinity College, Dublin, September 2010