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Professor, Manager of Research and Research Education
- English Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail cian.duffyenglund.luse
Room SOL H328b
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
Before taking up the chair of English literature at Lund in July 2016, my academic career brought me from the National University of Ireland at Galway to the universities of Cambridge, Glasgow, York, St. Mary's, and Copenhagen. My research examines various aspects of the intellectual life and cultural history of Britain during the late eighteenth century and 'romantic' period.
I sit on the boards of the John Andrén Foundation and of Nordic Association for Romantic Studies.
Research
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Books (2)
- Duffy, C. (2013). The Landscapes of the Sublime 1700-1830 : Classic Ground. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Duffy, C. (2005). Shelley and the Revolutionary Sublime. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism. Cambridge University Press.
Editorships (6)
- Duffy, C. & Domines Veliki, M. (2020). (Eds.) Romanticism and the Cultures of Infancy. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Duffy, C. (2017). (Ed.) Romantic Norths : Anglo-Nordic Exchanges, 1770-1842. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Duffy, C. & Donovan, J. (2016). (Eds.) Percy Bysshe Shelley : Selected Poems and Prose. Penguin.
- Duffy, C., Howell, P. & Ruddell, C. (2013). (Eds.) Romantic Adaptations : Essays in Mediation and Remediation. Routledge.
- Duffy, C. & Howell, P. (2011). (Eds.) Cultures of the sublime : Selected readings, 1700-1830. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Duffy, C., Donovan, J., Everest, K. & Rossington, M. (2011). (Eds.) The Poems of Shelley : Volume Three: 1819 - 1820. Longman annotated English poets. Routledge.
Articles (19)
- Duffy, C. (2019). 'Time is flying' : lyrical and historical time in the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences, 18, 37-49.
- Duffy, C. (2018). “And mothers, gazing, drank the love men see”: Lessing’s Laokoön (1767) and a difficult passage in Percy Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound (1820)’. Notes and Queries, 65, 363-365. Oxford University Press.
- Duffy, C. (2016). 'There was a time' : William Wordsworth and Jens Baggesen recollecting childhood. ANQ, 28, 170-173.
- Duffy, C. (2015). 'Of which no trace remains' : Percy Shelley's other 'lyrical drama' and the inception of Hellas. Studies in English Literature, 55, 817-840.
- Duffy, C. (2015). 'The story of this place' : Dronninggaard, John Carr, and forgotten works by William Hayley and Leigh Hunt. e-RomantikStudier, 1.
- Duffy, C. (2015). Percy Shelley's 'Unfinished Drama' and the Problem of the Jane Williams Poems. European Romantic Review, 26, 615-632.
- Duffy, C. (2014). 'Less accessible than thou or God' : where does Shelley locate Ahasuerus in Hellas. Notes and Queries, 61, 517-519. Oxford University Press.
- Duffy, C. (2014). 'My purpose was humbler, but also higher' : Thomas De Quincey's 'System of the Heavens', popular science, and the sublime. Romanticism, 20, 1-14.
- Duffy, C. (2014). 'Radiant as the morning star' : a little-known Shelley fragment and its context. Notes and Queries, 61, 35-523. Oxford University Press.
- Duffy, C. (2014). 'Such sweet and bitter pain as mine' : Mary Wollstonecraft's Short Residence and Shelley's 'Lines written in the Bay of Lerici'. Notes and Queries, 61, 519-523. Oxford University Press.
- Duffy, C. (2014). De Quincey's 'fearful enemy' : a possible source for the 'Malay' in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Notes and Queries, 61, 69-71. Oxford University Press.
- Duffy, C. (2014). Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'display of newspaper erudition' in Hellas, a Lyrical Drama (1822). Notes and Queries, 61, 519-523. Oxford University Press.
- Duffy, C. (2005). 'His canaille of an audience' : Thomas De Quincey and the revolution in reading. Studies in Romanticism, 44, 7-22. Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Duffy, C. (2005). ‘On the Ice-Islands Seen Floating in the Germanic Ocean’ : Cowper's Source for the Poem. Notes and Queries, 52, 22-25. Oxford University Press.
- Duffy, C. (2004). 'The child of a fierce hour' : Shelley and Napoleon Bonaparte. Studies in Romanticism, 43, 399-416. Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Duffy, C. (2003). 'The city disinterred' : the Shelley circle and the revolution at Naples. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 39, 152-164. Oxford University Press.
- Duffy, C. (2003). Revolution or reaction : Shelley's 'Assassins' and the politics of Necessity. Keats-Shelley Journal, 52, 77-93.
- Duffy, C. (2002). 'Faint traces which the memory bears' : a Radcliffe source in Schiller. Notes and Queries, 49, 447-449. Oxford University Press.
- Duffy, C. (2000). Mont Blanc's revolutionary 'voice' : Shelley and Archibald Alison. Bulletin of the British Association for Romantic Studies, 17, 8-11.
Book chapters (12)
- Duffy, C. (accepted/in press). 'Famous from all antiquity' : Etna in Classical Myth and Romantic Poetry. In Hollis, D. & Konig, J. (Eds.) Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity. Bloomsbury Academic.
- Duffy, C. (accepted/in press). Wild plants and wild passions in Percy Bysshe Shelley's poems for Jane Williams. In Falke, C. & Poetzsch, M. (Eds.) Wild Romanticism. Routledge.
- Duffy, C. & Domines Veliki, M. (2020). 'A detached peninsula' : infancy in the work of Thomas de Quincey. In Duffy, C. & Domines Veliki, M. (Eds.) Romanticism and the Cultures of Infancy (pp. 21-42). Palgrave Macmillan.
- Duffy, C. & Domines Veliki, M. (2020). Introduction : the Romantic Cultures of Infancy. In Duffy, C. & Domines Veliki, M. (Eds.) Romanticism and the Cultures of Infancy (pp. 1-20). Palgrave Macmillan.
- Duffy, C. (2018). 'They will not read it, but their sons & daughters may': judging Percy Shelley's 'Queen Mab' (1813) in the nineteenth century. In Gregory, J., Grey, D. & Bautz, A. (Eds.) Judgement in the Victorian Age (pp. 241-260). Routledge.
- Duffy, C. (2017). Ambiguity and the value of 'Literature' : Thomas De Quincey's Modernist commodities. In Domsch, S., Reinfandt, C. & Rennhak, K. (Eds.) Studien zur Englischen Romantik, Romantic Ambiguities : Abodes of the Modern (pp. 111-124), 20. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
- Duffy, C. (2017). Coda : Comparing the literature of 'the North' - William Wordsworth and Jens Baggesen. Romantic Norths : Anglo-Nordic Exchanges, 1770-1842, 251-258. Springer International Publishing.
- Duffy, C. (2017). Introduction: 'the less known, but equally romantic, regions of the north'. In Duffy, C. (Ed.) Romantic Norths : Anglo-Nordic Exchanges, 1770-1842 (pp. 1-27). Palgrave Macmillan.
- Duffy, C. (2013). 'Nothing in the world can equal such a scene' : Istanbul and the 'romantic' sublime. In Gurr, J. M. & Berit, M. (Eds.) Studien zur Englischen Romantik, Romantic Cityscapes : Selected Papers from the Essen Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism (pp. 249-255), 12. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
- Duffy, C. (2007). 'One draft from Snowdon's ever-sacred spring' : Shelley's Welsh sublime. In Pratt, L. & Walford-Davies, D. (Eds.) Wales and the Romantic Imagination (pp. 180-198). University of Wales Press.
- Duffy, C. (2007). Interrogating the 'valley of wonders' : Some romantic-period debates about Chamonix-Mont Blanc. In Lamont, C. & Rossington, M. (Eds.) Romanticism's Debatable Lands (pp. 148-159). Palgrave Macmillan.
- Duffy, C. (2002). Shelley and the Discourse on the Sublime. In Price, F. & Masson, S. (Eds.) Mellen Studies in Literature. Romantic Reassessment, Silence, Sublimity and Suppression (pp. 15-36), 157. Edwin Mellen Press.
Reviews (1)
Miscellaneous (5)
- Duffy, C. (2020). Falun Copper Mine [Falu Gruva]. European Romanticisms in Association.
- Duffy, C. (2020). Mount Vesuvius. European Romanticisms in Association.
- Duffy, C. (2019). Mount Etna. European Romanticisms in Association.
- Duffy, C. (2018). 'Les Adieux d L'Hermite de Dronning-Gaard'. RÊVE: The Virtual Exhibition. European Romanticisms in Association.
- Duffy, C. (2015). 'The happiest country in the world' : Mary Wollstonecraft in Denmark.
Supervision at Lund University (1)
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Professor, Manager of Research and Research Education
- English Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail cian.duffyenglund.luse
Room SOL H328b
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20