Research in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature continues to flourish in the Cambridge English Faculty. The diversity and intensity of thought and art in this key period are reflected at every level of our teaching, conversation and writing. Doctoral students participate in a research community which meets regularly, and which offers support and training from peers and professionals.Ê

The Cambridge tradition of close collaboration with a supervisor is enriched by opportunities to present research papers, to participate in professional training, and to contribute to specialist and general undergraduate teaching.

At Cambridge, traditions of close reading and attention to literary form are reinvigorated by innovative and challenging ideas. Here, there are as many approaches to criticism in the period as there are long eighteenth centuries or Romanticisms.

ÊThe lively conversation between philosophy and art in the eighteenth century continues in our research; the Cambridge English Faculty is a notable centre of Lyric Studies, with a particular focus on the poetry of the Romantic period, but long poems, hymns, essays, novels and childrenÕs stories also figure in our criticism; the interrelation of literature with other disciplines is well represented by faculty members working on aesthetics, material texts and cultures, economic and political theory, the study of language, classical antiquity, theology, working class and childrenÕs literature.