British Literature

• Region: Atlantic World; Britain; North America
• Time: 17th Century; 18th Century
• Theme: British Literature; History of Gender and Sexuality; History of Science

 I specialize in early modern drama and militarism. Before coming to Harvard, I served as a helicopter pilot in the US Army, an experience that has shaped my study of war and literature. My dissertation examines the figure of the returned soldier in early...

• Region: Britain
• Time: 15th Century; 16th Century; 17th Century
• Theme: British Literature; Cultural History; Cryptography; History of the Book; Women Writers
  

• Region: Atlantic World; Britain; Iberia; North America; Pacific World
• Time: 16th Century; 17th Century; 18th Century
• Theme: British Literature; Colonialism; Cultural History; History of Empire; History of Gender and Sexuality; History of Science...

• Region: Atlantic World; Britain; Europe; United States
• Time: 18th Century
• Theme: British Literature; Cultural History; History of Gender and Sexuality; Music

Alex Creighton is a sixth year graduate student in English at Harvard University, with...

• Region(s): Britain
• Time Period(s): 18th century
• Theme(s): Eighteenth-century and Romantic-period British literature and culture; theory and history of the novel; the Gothic; the Enlightenment; book history and the history of reading; affect...