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Robert J. Mayhew <robert.mayhew@bristol.ac.uk> University of Bristol 1) I am currently working on a general history of geographical thought for Oxford University Press as part of my ongoing inquiries concerning the history of geography. 2) I have also published extensively on landscape imagery and the geographical imagination as manifested in eighteenth-century English literature. |
| Address: | School of Geographical Sciences University Road Bristol, Somerset BS8 1SS United Kingdom |
| Web Page: | http://www.ggy.bris.ac.uk/staff/staff_mayhew.html |
| List Affiliations: | Advisory Board Member for H-HistGeog Former Review Editor for H-HistGeog Reviewer for H-HistGeog |
| Interests: | History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Intellectual History World History / Studies |
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Bio: Degrees: 1992, BA (Oxon) in Geography. 1996, D.Phil (Oxon) in Historical Geography. 1996-9 British Academy Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College Cambridge. Select Publications: 1) "Enlightenment Geography: The Political Languages of British Geography, 1650-1850" (London and New York: Macmillan and St Martin's Press, 2000), pp.viii + 314. 2) "The Character of Geography, c.1660-1800: A Textual Approach" in Journal of Historical Geography, 24, 1998, pp.385-412. 3) Was William Shakespeare an eighteenth-century geographer? Constructing histories of geographical knowledge, in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, N.S. 23.1, 1998, pp.21-37. 4) William Gilpin and the Latitudinarian Picturesque, in Eighteenth-Century Studies, 33.3, 2000, pp.349-66. 5) Edmund Gibson’s Editions of Britannia: Loyalist Chorography and the Particularist Politics of Precedent, 1695-1722, in Historical Research, 73.3, 2000, pp.239-61. 6) Geography, Print Culture and the Renaissance: “The Road Less Travelled By”, in History of European Ideas, 24 (2002), pp.1-21. |
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