Dr Marcus Nevitt
School of English
Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature
+44 114 222 8487
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School of English
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
91̽»¨
S3 7RA
- Profile
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I was appointed as a lecturer in Renaissance Literature here at 91̽»¨ in 2002. This was a welcome return home having spent four years at 91̽»¨ some time previously as both PhD student and Teaching Fellow.
In the intervening three years, I taught in the English Literature departments of the University of Hertfordshire and the University of Leeds.
My first book, Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England was a study of the relationships between cheap print and female agency in the English Civil wars. I also research relationships between news and print culture and co-edited with Michael J. Braddick, Seventeenth-Century Journalism and the Digital Age (2017) Since then, I´ve also developed an interest in Restoration theatre and genre, co-authoring, with Tanya Pollard, (Bloomsbury 2019). I’m also one of the contributing editors to the forthcoming CUP edition of the . My next book is a study of Restoration theatre and patronage. I also review regularly for The Spectator.
- Research interests
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I specialise in seventeenth-century literature. I have written principally on cheap print and my monograph, Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England was published by Ashgate in 2006. I have written articles on Ben Jonson and news writing in the seventeenth century, as well as numerous pieces on interregnum royalism and its connection to Restoration culture.
I am currently working on a study of Restoration theatre patronage.
- Publications
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Books
- Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640-1660. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd..
Edited books
- Seventeenth-century journalism in the digital age..
Journal articles
- . Electronic British Library Journal, 2023.
- Behn's Jonson. Women's Writing.
- . Media History, 23(2), 151-158.
- . Media History, 23(2), 218-240.
- . Prose Studies, 36(3), 185-198.
- . Studies in Philology, 109(4), 496-518.
- . Seventeenth Century, 24(2), 287-304.
- . The Cambridge Quarterly, 35(2), 185-188.
- . Notes and Queries, 53(4), 484-486.
- Ben Jonson and the Serial Publication of News. News Networks in Seventeenth-Century Britain and Europe, 53-68.
- Major and the Minors: A Cultural Materialist Reading of 'Julius Caesar'. Shakespeare Criticism, 189-208.
- . Prose Studies, 25(2), 122-136.
- Elizabeth Poole Writes the Regicide. Women's Writing 9 (2), 233-248.
- Women playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland 1660-1823. SCRIBLERIAN AND THE KIT-CATS, 32(2), 354-356.
- 'Blessed, Self-Denying, Lambe-Like'? The Fifth Monarchist Women. Critical Survey 11:1, 83-97.
- . Prose Studies, 21(2), 84-108.
Chapters
- , The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing (pp. 1-3). Springer International Publishing
- Ballads and the Development of the English Newsbook In Conboy M & Steel J (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to British Media History Routledge
- Thomas Killigrew's 'Thomaso' as Two-Part Comedy In Major P (Ed.), Thomas Killigrew and the Seventeenth-Century English Stage Ashgate
- , News, Newspapers and Society in Early Modern Britain (pp. 84-108).
- Shakespeare for Royalists: John Quarles and 'The Rape of Lucrece' (1655) In McElligott J & Smith DL (Ed.), Royalists and Royalism During the Interregnum Manchester University Press
- Routledge
- Milton's Sonnet XIV and the Poetry of George Thomason In Mandelbrote G & Peacey J (Ed.), Collecting Revolution British Library
Book reviews
- . The Seventeenth Century, 33(5), 618-620.
- . The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 65(1), 207-208.
- . Renaissance Quarterly, 66(1), 270-271.
Conference proceedings papers
- John Selden among the Quakers: Antifeminism and the Seventeenth-Century Tithes Controversy. LITERATURE, POLITICS AND LAW IN RENAISSANCE ENGLAND (pp 189-208)
- Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640-1660. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd..
- Research group
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I welcome applications from potential research students in all of my research areas.
- Grants
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AHRC Speculative Research Grant £200,000 for ‘Participating in Search Design: A Study of George Thomason’s Newsbooks’:
HEIF 4 Grant, £10,000 (for pilot project with Derbyshire Record Office: ‘Accessing the Regional Archive: The Wheatcroft MSS’)
- Teaching activities
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I teach on the following modules:
- LIT107 - Introduction to Advanced Literary Studies 1
- LIT2000 - Genre
- LIT234 - Renaissance Poetry and Prose
- LIT207 - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature.
- LIT3028/ LIT6008 - Writing the English Civil War (undergraduate and MA modules)