Paddy Bullard

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0118 378 7469
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Associate Professor
Areas of interest
My teaching and research focus on English writing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Satire, political thought and the history of the printed book (together with material culture studies more broadly) are the big themes in my work. I also write on a range of rural topics, including georgic poetry, traditional song and non-urban environments. My work in this area has involved many collaborations with the Museum of English Rural Life, most recently on the ACE-funded 'Museum of the Intangible' project, for which I was academic lead.
My current monograph, The Enlightenment Mock-Arts, describes how writers in an age of open inquiry dealt with knowledge that cannot be disseminated freely in print (the conventional technology of enlightenment) because it is tacit and unspecifiable, reproducible only by example or personal habituation. My first book, Edmund Burke and the Art of Rhetoric (Cambridge University Press, 2011), traces the origins of Burke's thinking about political deliberation in seventeenth-century theories of moral psychology, and in the 'commonwealthsman' political culture of eighteenth-century Ireland.
For OUP I am editor of The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire (2019)
I have an on-going interest in scholarly editing. With Timothy Michael I am co-editor of volume 15 (Later Prose) of The Oxford Edition of the Works of Alexander Pope. Since 2004 I have worked on the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift , first as an AHRC research fellow at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and currently as associate editor. This collaboration has yielded a volume of essays, Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book (Cambridge University Press, 2013), co-edited with James McLaverty, and the digital archive at the Jonathan Swift Archive I am a member of the review college for the Arts and Humanities Research Council. I am a Fellow of the HEA, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA)
Postgraduate supervision
I have supervised successful PhDs on twentieth-century women’s publishing, the early-modern book trade, enlightenment-period libraries and on the eighteenth-century novel. I am interested in supervising doctoral research on all aspects of eighteenth-century and Romantic writing, on book history, on satire and on rural studies.
Publications
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Bullard, P.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7193-0844 (2022) Low lands: fen georgic. In: Bullard, P. , (eds.) A History of English Georgic Writing. Cambridge University Press , Cambridge. pp. 275-295. ISBN: 9781009019507 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009019507.017
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Bullard, P.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7193-0844 (2022) Introduction: a survey of English georgic writing, 1521-2021. In: Bullard, P. , (eds.) A History of English Georgic Writing. Cambridge University Press , Cambridge. pp. 1-56. ISBN: 9781009019507 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009019507.001
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Bullard, P.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7193-0844 , eds. (2022) A history of English georgic writing. Cambridge University Press , Cambridge. pp 401. ISBN: 9781009019507 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009019507
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Bullard, P.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7193-0844 (2022) Gulliver's Travels as philosophical tale. In: Cook, D. and Seager, N. , (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels. Cambridge University Press , Cambridge.
- Bullard, P. (2020) Restoring The Wheelwright's Shop. Journal of Modern Craft , 13 (2). pp. 161-178. ISSN: 1749-6772 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17496772.2020.1783803
- Bullard, P. (2019) Re-reading 'The Wheelwright's Shop'. In: Olding, S. , (eds.) Shoulder to the Wheel. Craft Studies Centre , Farnham. pp. 25-30. ISBN: 9780957021297
- Bullard, P. (2019) Robinson Crusoe and the natural mechanick. Études anglaises: revue du monde anglophone , 72 (2). pp. 182-195. ISSN: 1965-0159 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3917/etan.722.0182
- Bullard, P. (2019) Against the experts: Swift and political satire. In: Bullard, P. , (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire. Oxford University Press , Oxford. ISBN: 9780198727835
- Bullard, P. (2019) Describing eighteenth-century British satire. In: Bullard, P. , (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire. Oxford University Press , Oxford, UK. ISBN: 9780198727835
- Bullard, P. , eds. (2019) The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire. Oxford Handbooks Oxford University Press , Oxford. pp 752. ISBN: 9780198727835
- Bullard, P. (2019) Des querelles que nous fair la nature: Gulliver, Latour et les croisement de la modernité. In: Hostiou, J. and Tadié, A. , (eds.) Querelles et Création en Europe à L’époque Moderne. Classiques Garnier , Paris, France. pp. 161-183. ISBN: 9782406073567 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-07358-1
- Bullard, P. (2018) The satirists and the experts. Critical Quarterly , 59 (4). pp. 5-20. ISSN: 1467-8705 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/criq.12377
- Bullard, P. (2016) Eighteenth-century minds: from associationism to cognitive psychology. Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford University Press , Oxford. | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935338.013.95
- Bullard, P. and Tadié, A. , eds. (2016) Ancients and moderns in Europe: comparative perspectives. Oxford University Studies in Enlightenment , 2016:06. Voltaire Foundation , Oxford. pp 316. ISBN: 9780729411776
- Bullard, P. (2016) John Evelyn as modern architect and ancient gardener: 'lessons of perpetual practice'. In: Bullard, P. and Tadié, A. , (eds.) Ancients and moderns in Europe: comparative perspectives. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment Voltaire Foundation. University of Oxford , Oxford. pp. 171-188. ISBN: 9780729411776
- Bullard, P. (2016) Gulliver, medium, technique. English Literary History , 83 (2). pp. 517-541. ISSN: 1080-6547 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/elh.2016.0010
- Bullard, P. (2016) Swift's razor. Modern Philology , 113 (3). pp. 353-372. ISSN: 0013-8304 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1086/684098
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Bullard, P.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7193-0844 (2013) Digital humanities and electronic resources in the long eighteenth century. Literature Compass , 10 (10). pp. 748-760. ISSN: 1741-4113 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12085
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Bullard, P.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7193-0844 (2013) Rhetoric and eloquence: the language of persuasion. In: Harris, J. , (eds.) The Oxford Handbook to British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century. Oxford Handbooks Online pp. 84-105. ISBN: 9780199549023 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199549023.013.005
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Bullard, P.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7193-0844 (2013) The Scriblerian mock-arts: pseudo-technical satire in Swift and his contemporaries. Studies in Philology , 110 (3). pp. 611-636. ISSN: 0039-3738
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Bullard, P.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7193-0844 and McLaverty, J. , eds. (2013) Jonathan Swift and the eighteenth-century book. Cambridge University Press , Cambridge. ISBN: 9781107016262
- Bullard, P. (2013) What Swift did in libraries. In: Bullard, P. and McLaverty, J. , (eds.) Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book. Cambridge University Press , Cambridge. pp. 65-84. ISBN: 9781107016262
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Bullard, P.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7193-0844 and McLaverty, J. (2013) Introduction. In: Bullard, P. and McLaverty, J. , (eds.) Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book. Cambridge University Press , Cambridge. pp. 1-28. ISBN: 9781107016262
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Bullard, P.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7193-0844 (2012) Pride, pulpit eloquence, and the rhetoric of Jonathan Swift. Rhetorica , 30 (3). pp. 252-279. ISSN: 1533-8541 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1525/RH.2012.30.3.252
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Bullard, P.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7193-0844 (2012) Digital editing and the eighteenth-century text: works, archives and miscellanies. Eighteenth-Century Life , 36 (3). pp. 57-80. ISSN: 0098-2601 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00982601-1672826
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Bullard, P.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7193-0844 (2012) Burke’s aesthetic psychology. In: Dwan, D. and Insole, C. , (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke. The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke pp. 53-66. ISBN: 9781107005594 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cco9780511794315.007
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Bullard, P.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7193-0844 (2011) Edmund Burke and the Art of Rhetoric. Cambridge University Press , Cambridge, UK. pp 272. ISBN: 9780511902635 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511902635
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Bullard, P.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7193-0844 (2011) Edmund Burke among the poets: Milton, Lucretius and the philosophical enquiry. In: Vermeir, K. and Dekard, M. , (eds.) The Science of Sensibility: Reading Burke's Philosophical Enquiry. The Science of Sensibility: Reading Burke's Philosophical Enquiry pp. 247-263. ISBN: 9789400721012 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2102-9_12
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Bullard, P.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7193-0844 (2007) The Figure of Emancipation: Paradox, Rhetoric and the Enlightenments of Rousseau and Burke. In: France, P. and Manning, S. , (eds.) Enlightenment and Emancipation. Bucknell University Press ISBN: 9780838756195
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Bullard, P.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7193-0844 (2005) The Meaning of the 'Sublime and Beautiful': Shaftesburian contexts and rhetorical issues in Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry. The Review of English Studies , 56 (224). pp. 169-191. ISSN: 0034-6551 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/res/hgi048 (Review of English Studies Prize Essay, 2005)
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Womersley, D.
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Bullard, P.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7193-0844 , Williams, A. , eds. (2005) Cultures of Whiggism: New Essays on English Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century. University of Delaware Press , Newark, NJ, USA. pp 370. ISBN: 9781611492682
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Bullard, P.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7193-0844 (2005) The Latitude of Whiggism: Burnet, Tillotson and Lord William Russell in Whig historiography, 1675-1775. In: Womersley, D. , Bullard, P. , Williams, A. , (eds.) Cultures of Whiggism: New Essays on English Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century. University of Delaware Press ISBN: 9781611492682