Kerry McSweeney
B.A., Ph.D. (University of Toronto), Molson Professor of English
Aesthetic readings of poems and short stories.
Books:
The Realist Short Story of the Powerful Glimpse: Chekhov to Carver(2007).
What’s the Import? Nineteenth-Century Poems and Contemporary Critical PracticeÌý(2007).
The Language of the Senses: Sensory-Perceptual Dynamics in Wordsworth, Coleridge, Thoreau, Whitman, and DickinsonÌý(1998).
Supreme Attachments: Studies in Victorian Love PoetryÌý(1998).
George Eliot: A Literary Life (1991; 1996).
"Invisible Man": Race and IdentityÌý(1988).
"Moby-Dick": Ishmael's Mighty BookÌý(1986).
"Middlemarch"Ìý(1984).
Four Contemporary Novelists: Angus Wilson, Brian Moore, John Fowles, V.S. NaipaulÌý(1983).
Tennyson and Swinburne as Romantic NaturalistsÌý(1981).
Books edited:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Aurora Leigh. Oxford World’s Classics (1993; third printing 1994; reissued 1998).
Thomas Carlyle. Sartor Resartus (with Peter Sabor). Oxford World’s Classics (1987; reprinted1991; reissued 1999)
Angus Wilson. Diversity and Depth in Fiction: Selected Critical Writings(1983).
Selected articles and contributions to books
"Dream Representations in Wuthering Heights,ÌýCrime and Punishment, and War and Peace."ÌýSymposium 59 (2005): 163-78.
"Literary Allusion and the Poetry of Seamus Heaney."ÌýStyle 33 (1999): 130-43.
"David Copperfield and the Music of Memory."ÌýDickens Studies Annual23 (1994): 93-119.
"Intimations of Wordsworth in A. M. Klein's ‘Autobiographical’."Canadian Poetry 35 (1994): 74-9.
"The Silver-Grey Discourse of The Music of Time."ÌýEnglish Studies in Canada 18 (1992): 43-58.
"The Ending of The Mill on the Floss."ÌýEnglish Studies in Canada 12 (1986): 55-68.
"Mordecai Richler."ÌýCanadian Writers and their Works, fiction Series vol. 6 (1985).
"Salinger Revisited."ÌýCritical Quarterly 20 (1978): 61-68
- SSHRC research grants
- Leave fellowships
- Book subventions.
Queen's University, University of Warwick, University of Victoria.