Professor
B.A., M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Edinburgh)
Traill College, Wallis Hall 121, ext. 6028, kchittick@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Poetic Metre; Romantic literature; Old English/Middle English studies 1760-1880; Eighteenth-century literature. Authors: Walter Scott, George Gordon Byron, William Cobbett, William Hazlitt, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry James, W.H. Auden, Wallace Stevens. I teach a range of courses, including Milton, Eighteenth-century poetry and prose, Romantic poetry and prose, the history of the novel, and modern poetry.
Current Research: Currently working on a book-length study of the early career of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), focusing on his poetry and criticism during the years 1792-1815.
Selected Publications
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“Political Controversy: The Reform Bill.” Chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Romantic Prose (8,000 wds). Forthcoming. Oxford University Press
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“Sir Walter Scott and the All the Talents Cabinet.” Scottish Historical Review XCIX, 2:250 (October 2020), 246–270.
- “Walter Scott and the Reform of the Scottish Judicature 1806-10.”Journal of Legal History 36.3December 2015: 217-35.
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The Critical Reception of Charles Dickens 1833 - 1841. Garland Press, 1989; reissued in Routledge Revivals, Routledge, 2014. SSHRC Funded.
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“Evil in Esthétique due Mal and The Princess Casamassima.”Wallace Stevens Journal 36.2 Fall 2012: 175-93.
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Advisory Editor & Contributor, The Oxford Reader’s Companion to Dickens. Oxford University Press, 1999; revised pbk edition, 2000; reissued 2012.
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The Language of Whiggism: Liberty and Patriotism, 1802 - 1830. Pickering & Chatto, 2010. SSHRC Funded.
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Dickens and the 1830s. Cambridge University Press, 1990; reissued 2010. SSHRC Funded.
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Rev. Byron and the Jews by Sheila A. Spector. English Studies in Canada. 36.4 Winter 2010: 117-38.