Matthew Scott

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Lecturer
Areas of interest
My research falls broadly within the field of British and American Romanticism but my teaching stretches over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The writers in whom I have an especial interest are Coleridge, Hazlitt, Wordsworth, Keats, Byron and Scott in Britain, and Emerson, Melville, and the James brothers in America but my approach to them has tended to be cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary with a strong focus upon the study of the history of aesthetics, criticism, and philosophy.
The kinds of concepts within the history of ideas that appeal to me relate to theories of literary influence, artistic representation, emotion and sympathy, orientalism and imperialism, and I am particularly interested in investigating the language or rhetoric that attends to these. Most especially, at present, I am concerned with ideas of wonder, novelty and the ordinary, and the importance that has been attached to these by writers who have argued for and against the ethical value of literary study.
Teaching
Within the department I convene modules in:
- William Hazlitt and Revolutionary Romanticism
- Lord Byron: Poetry, Life, Reputation
- Nation and Empire (MA module)
I have also contributed to courses in:
- Restoration to Romanticism; Romantics to Decadents; Nineteenth-century novel
- Shakespeare; Critical Theory; Languages of Literature;
- Revisioning Shakespeare Literature and Science (MA module)
Selected publications
Publications reflecting my interests include:
- Wordsworth in American Literary Culture, Editor, with Joel Pace, (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2005)*
Chapters and contributions to edited volumes
- "Coleridge's Literary Lectures," in The Oxford Handbook of Coleridge Studies, ed. Frederick Burwick, Oxford University Press, 2009, forthcoming. (32pp MS).
- "Coleridge and European Literature," in The Oxford Handbook of Coleridge Studies, ed. Frederick Burwick, Oxford University Press, 2009, forthcoming. (35pp MS).
- "Romantic Poetry" in The Year's Work in English Studies, Oxford University Press, 86, 2006, 635-651.
- "Romantic Poetry" in The Year's Work in English Studies, Oxford University Press, 85, 2005, 613-628.
- "Romantic Poetry" in The Year's Work in English Studies, Oxford University Press, 84, 2004, 591-609.
- "An Ethics of Wonder and the Cure of Poetry: Wordsworth, William James and the American Reader," in Wordsworth in American Literary Culture, 212-238.*
- "Introduction," in Wordsworth in American Literary Culture, 1-18.*
- Translations for The Faber Book of Opera, (Faber, 2000) of French and German entries.
Articles in refereed journals
- "Hazlitt's Burke and the Idea of Grace," The Hazlitt Review, 1, 2008, forthcoming. (26pp MS)
- "Edward Said's Orientalism," Essays in Criticism, LVIII.I, 2008, 64-81.*
- "John Keats and the Aesthetics of the Topsy-Turvy," European Romantic Review, 17. 2, 2006, 245-254.
- "Romantic Identities, or What do we really have in common?" in Romanticism on the Net, 16, 1999, (18pp. MS).
- "The Return to Poetics,"in Romanticism on the Net, 12, 1998, (16pp. MS).
- "The Circulation of Romantic Creativity: Coleridge, Drama and the Question of Translation," in Romanticism on the Net, 2, 1996, (19pp. MS).
Reviews
- Reviews for a number of academic journals: The Wordsworth Circle, Review of English Studies, The Charles Lamb Bulletin, The Liberal, Romanticism on the Net.
Publications
- Scott, M. (2019) Augustan romantics. In: Bullard, P. , (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire. Oxford University Press , Oxford. ISBN: 9780198727835
- Scott, M. (2019) Byron's transatlantic sinking. Symbiosis: Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations , 23 (1). ISSN: 1362-7902
- Scott, M. (2017) Keats criticism, 1900-1963. In: O'Neill, M. , (eds.) John Keats in Context. Cambridge University Press , Cambridge. pp. 331-339. ISBN: 9781107707474 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781107707474.034
- Scott, M. (2015) Wordsworth among the romantics. In: Gravil, R. and Robinson, D. , (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth. Oxford University Press , Oxford. pp. 749-766. ISBN: 9780199662128 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199662128.001.0001
- Scott, M. (2012) Isaac D'Israeli's curious Conservatism. London Magazine (Oct-Nov). pp. 12-17. ISSN: 0024-6085
- Scott, M. (2012) Disraeli and Scott: oriental aristocracy and the Tory novel. Wordsworth Circle , 43 (2). pp. 98-103. ISSN: 0043-8006
- Scott, M. (2012) Romanticism, British and American. In: Greene, R. , Cushman, S. , Ramanzani, J. , Cavanagh, C. , (eds.) The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics. Princeton University Press pp. 2022-2025. ISBN: 9780691133348
- Scott, M. (2012) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose. In: Burwick, F. , (eds.) The encyclopedia of romantic literature. Blackwell Publishing | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/b.9781405188104.2012.x
- Scott, M. (2012) Edmund Burke. In: Burwick, F. , (eds.) The encyclopedia of romantic literature. Blackwell Publishing
- Scott, M. (2012) Benjamin Robert Haydon. In: Burwick, F. , (eds.) The encyclopedia of romantic literature. Blackwell Publishing | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/b.9781405188104.2012.x
- Scott, M. (2012) William Hazlitt. In: Burwick, F. , (eds.) The encyclopedia of romantic literature. Blackwell Publishing ISBN: 9781405188104 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/b.9781405188104.2012.x
- Scott, M. (2012) 'A Manner Beyond Courtesy': two concepts of wonder in Coleridge and Shelley. Romanticism , 18 (3). pp. 227-238. ISSN: 1750-0192 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2012.0094
- Scott, M. (2011) The fate of beauty. Essays in Criticism , 61 (1). pp. 1-19. ISSN: 1471-6852 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/escrit/cgq030
- Scott, M. (2010) Serious Anthony Powell I. The London Magazine , 2010 (Feb-Mar). pp. 54-56. ISSN: 0024-6085
- Scott, M. (2010) Serious Anthony Powell II. The London Magazine , 2010 (Apr-May). pp. 68-71. ISSN: 0024-6085
- Scott, M. (2010) The beauty of conservatism. The London Magazine , 2010 (June-July). pp. 103-106. ISSN: 0024-6085
- Scott, M. (2010) William Hazlitt and Ralph Waldo Emerson: unitarianism, the museum, and the aesthetics of power. The Wordsworth Circle , 41 (2). pp. 99-103. ISSN: 0043-8006
- Scott, M. (2009) 1859: the tyranny of the majority. London Magazine , 6 pp. 53-55. ISSN: 0024-6085
- Scott, M. (2009) 1759. London Magazine , 5 pp. 56-59. ISSN: 0024-6085
- Scott, M. (2009) 1809: prose is verse. London Magazine (4). pp. 86-89. ISSN: 0024-6085
- Scott, M. (2009) Coleridge and European literature. In: Burwick, F. , (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Oxford Handbooks of Literature Oxford University Press , Oxford. pp. 534-554. ISBN: 9780199229536
- Scott, M. (2009) Coleridge’s 'Lectures 1808-1819: On Literature'. In: Burwick, F. , (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge . Oxford Handbooks of Literature Oxford University Press , Oxford. pp. 185-203. ISBN: 9780199229536
- Scott, M. (2009) John Scott’s 'The London Magazine' . The London Magazine pp. 34-40. ISSN: 0024-6085
- Scott, M. (2008) Edward Said's 'Orientalism'. Essays in Criticism , 58 (1). pp. 64-81. ISSN: 1471-6852 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/escrit/cgm025
- Scott, M. (2008) Hazlitt's Burke and the idea of grace. The Hazlitt Review , 1 pp. 27-40. ISSN: 1757-8299
- Scott, M. (2006) Romantic Poetry. The Year's Work in English Studies. , 86. Oxford University Press pp. 635-651.
- Scott, M. (2006) John Keats and the aesthetics of topsy-turvy. European Romantic Review , 17 (2). pp. 245-254. ISSN: 1740-4657 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10509580600688374
- Scott, M. (2005) Romantic Poetry. The Year's Work in English Studies. , 85. Oxford University Press pp. 613-628.
- Scott, M. (2005) An Ethics of Wonder and the Cure of Poetry: Wordsworth, William James and the American Reader. Wordsworth in American Literary Culture. Palgrave , Houndsmills. pp. 212-238.
- Scott, M. (2005) Introduction. Wordsworth in American Literary Culture. Palgrave , Houndsmills. pp. 1-18.
- Scott, M. , eds. (2005) Wordsworth in American Literary Culture. Palgrave , Houndsmills.
- Scott, M. (2004) Romantic Poetry. The Year's Work in English Studies. , 84. Oxford University Press pp. 591-609.
- Scott, M. (1999) Romantic Identities, or What do we really have in common?. Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net
- Scott, M. (1998) The Return to Poetics. Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net
- Scott, M. (1996) The Circulation of Romantic Creativity: Coleridge, Drama and the Question of Translation. Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net , 2