James Boulton (Oxford World’s Classics, 1991)Įd. Introduction, Daniel Defoe, Memoirs of a Cavalier, ed. with Introduction, Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection (Oxford University Press, 2000). with Introduction, Lives of the Great Romantics by Their Contemporaries: Shelley (Pickering & Chatto, 1996)Įd. What Matters in Jane Austen? (Bloomsbury 2012)Įd. A Secret History of English Literature (Faber and Faber, 2007) How Novels Work (Oxford University Press, 2006)Īnonymity. A Selection with Christopher Reid (Oxford University Press, 2000) The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century (Oxford University Press, 1988)Įighteenth-Century Popular Culture. His most recent book is The Artful Dickens (2020). He also has research interests in the nineteenth century, and in 2012 published his book What Matters in Jane Austen? He has edited Sense and Sensibility for Oxford World’s Classics his edition of Emma is forthcoming. In 2007 he published a study of the uses of anonymity in English Literature, from the sixteenth century to the present: Anonymity. He has edited a number of works by Daniel Defoe and his edition of Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the Poets was published in 2008. John is a specialist in eighteenth-century literature and is at present writing the volume of the Oxford English Literary History that will cover the period from 1709 to 1784. He is a regular TV and radio broadcaster and a literary journalist he writes on contemporary fiction for the Guardian and was a judge for the 2009 Man Booker Prize. He was General Editor of the Pickering & Chatto series Lives of the Great Romantics by Their Contemporaries, and Associate Editor for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He has been Professor of English since 2005, and was appointed Lord Northcliffe Chair of Modern English Literature from 1st October 2016. He was a Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge and a Lecturer at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, before coming to UCL in 1994.

John Mullan studied for his BA and PhD at the University of Cambridge.

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