Assoc Prof Will Christie

DPhil Oxf. BA
Associate Professor


Room S362
A20 John Woolley Building

+61 2 9351 2374

• British Romantic literature and culture
• Poetry and poetics

Nineteenth-Century Studies

A Critical Investigation into the Life and Writings of Francis Jeffrey (1773-1850)

• A study of the Edinburgh Review in early nineteenth-century literary culture
• The life and correspondence of Francis Jeffrey and Thomas Carlyle
• 'Eating Their Words': a study of literary influence
• A literary biography of Dylan Thomas
• The novels of Jane Austen

• Foundation editor Down Under Milk Wood, The Newsletter of the Dylan Thomas Society of Australia, since 1998
• Sole editor of Literature and Aesthetics, The Journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics (2001-2);
  co-editor with E. E. Benitez (2003-4) Lloyd Reinhardt (2000), and G. L. Little (1997-8)

• Member of the British Association for Romantic Studies
• Member of the Jane Austen Society of Australia
• Member of the Byron Society of Australia
• Member of the Dylan Thomas Society of Australia (president 1998-2002, 2004-5; currently vice-president)

Books

• (ed.), The Letters of Francis Jeffrey to Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008).
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Literary Life (Basingstoke, Hants, and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
• Under Mulga Wood (Sydney: Mumford and More, 2004)

Articles and Chapters on Books

• “Superflux and Silence in Shakespeare’s King Lear”, Sydney Studies in English, XXXIII (2007), pp. 1-18.
• “The Story of Samuel Rogers and His Poetry”, in Bulletin of the Byron Society in Australia, vol. XXXI (2007), pp. 7-27.
• “Coleridge and Wordsworth in Pandaemonium”, Sydney Studies in English, XXXI (2005), pp. 109-20.
• “‘HIMSELF, ALONE’: Coleridge in Isolation”, Metaphor, 3 (2005), pp. 15-25.
• “Essays, Newspapers, and Magazines”, in Romanticism: An Oxford Guide, ed. Nicholas Roe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 426-444.
• “State Patronage and the Romantic Writer: Henry Taylor’s Modest Proposal” in Authorship, Commerce and the Public: Scenes of Writing 1750-1850, ed. E. J. Clery, Caroline Franklin, and Peter Garside (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), pp. 218-36.
• “A Recent History of Poetic Difficulty”, English Literary History LXVII (2000), pp. 539-564.
• “The Critical Metamorphoses of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”, Sydney Studies in English XXV (1999), pp. 47-82.
• “Going Public: Print Lords Byron and Brougham”, Studies in Romanticism, XXXVIII (Fall 1999), pp. 443-75.
• twenty six entries in Iain McCalman (gen. ed.), An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture, 1776-1832 (Oxford University Press, 1999.)
• “Running with the English Hare and Hunting with the Scotch Bloodhounds”, The Byron Journal XXV (1997), pp. 23-31
• “Byron and Francis Jeffrey”, The Byron Journal, XXV (1997), pp. 32-43
• “Pride, Politics, and Prejudice”, Nineteenth-Century Contexts XX, no.3 (Winter 1997), pp. 313-334.
• “The Printer's Devil in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria”, Prose Studies XIX, no.1 (April 1996), pp. 37-54.
• “Reading Romanticism”, Literature and Aesthetics , VI (October 1996), pp. 120-31.
• "Despondency and Madness": Shelley in Conversation with Byron in Julian and Maddalo", The Byron Journal XXI (1993), pp. 43-60.
• "Francis Jeffrey's Associationist Aesthetics”, British Journal of Aesthetics XXXIII, no. 3 (July 1993), p. 257-269.
• “Wordsworth and the Language of Nature”, The Wordsworth Circle, XIV, 1 (Winter 1983), pp. 40-7.

• British Romantic Literature, 1780-1830
• Authority and Anxiety: Eighteenth-Century Literature
• Jane Austen and her Contemporaries
• Critical Theory and Literary Practice
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Novel into Film