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Paul Young <p.young@ex.ac.uk> University of Exeter I am currently working on a book entitled "Fantasizing Empire: Globalization and the Great Exhibition." This book considers the Great Exhibition as an event which attempted to plot – in the sense of map and narrate – Britain’s economic expansion in the world. The project foregrounds an imperial fantasy of peaceful and progressive interaction between Britain and “backward” regions of the earth, and demonstrates how this fantasy took hold of a Victorian understanding of global order, both within the Crystal Palace and beyond. In doing this it provides a critical account of a wide-ranging source materials, including Exhibition literature and ephemera (catalogues, lectures, poems, press reports, short stories, cartoons, board games, speeches and souvenirs), analytical prose (writings by Carlyle, Marx, J.S. Mill, Ruskin, Whewell) and canonical fiction (works by Brontë, Collins, Dickens, Eliot, Rossetti, Tennyson, Thackeray and Trollope). |
| Address: | School of English, University of Exeter Queen's Building, Queen's Drive Exeter, Devon EX4 4QH United Kingdom |
| Primary Phone: | 01392262455 |
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| List Affiliations: | Advisory Board Member for H-Empire |
| Interests: | Intellectual History Women, Gender, and Sexuality World History / Studies |
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Bio: Academic Posts held: Oct 2004-present Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Victorian Literature and Culture, School of English, University of Exeter Jan 2004-Sept 2004 Lecturer in Literature, Culture and Theory, 1850 to the Present, School of English and Linguistics, University of Manchester Education: 1998-2002 Ph.D. “The Great Exhibition of 1851: Making Sense of the World?” School of English and Linguistics, University of Manchester 1994-1995 M.A. Culture and Social Change, Department of English, University of Southampton 1991-1994 B.A. (Hons) English Literature (1st class) Department of English, University of Southampton Publications: Monograph · Fantasizing Empire: Globalization and the Great Exhibition (for submission to Palgrave’s ‘Nineteenth Century Writing and Culture Series’) Articles · “Economy, Empire, Extermination: The Christmas Pudding, the Crystal Palace, and the Narrative of Capitalist Progress.” Literature and History 14.1 (Spring 2005): 14-30. · “‘Carbon, Mere Carbon’: The Kohinoor, the Crystal Palace and the Mission to Make Sense of British India.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 28.3 (Summer 2006): pp. forthcoming. [8000 words] · “The Cooking Animal: Economic Man at the Great Exhibition.” Victorian Literature and Culture. (under review). [9000 words] Chapters in books · “Mission Impossible: Globalisation and the Great Exhibition.” All London is Astir’: Great Britain, the British Empire and the World at the Great Exhibition. Ed. Peter Hoffenberg. (Invited submission; manuscript under review with Ashgate). [10,000 words] Collaborative work · The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Reader. Ed. Isobel Armstrong and Paul Young. (Initial discussions are underway with Blackwell for publication in winter 2007). Other published material · “Monkey Man at the Great Exhibition.” The Fair: Northern Ireland at the Venice Biennale (Belfast: Factotum, 2005). [2,500 words] |
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