Professor Malcolm Andrews
B.A., Ph.D
| Emeritus Professor | |
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| Email: m.y.andrews@kent.ac.uk |
Interests
Malcolm Andrews was Professor of Victorian and Visual Studies in the School of English until 2009. He is Editor of The Dickensian, the journal of the Dickens Fellowship. The journal (founded in 1905) is published three times a year, in Spring, Summer, and Winter, and has a world-wide circulation of about 1,700. It publishes articles on all aspects of Dickens's life, work and the age in which he lived.
Malcolm Andrews has edited two novels for the Everyman Dickens series, David Copperfield (1993) and The Pickwick Papers (1998), and is the author of Dickens on England and the English (1979) and Dickens and the Grown-up Child (1995). The latter book is a study of the evolution of the concept of childhood in the early nineteenth century, its relation to primitivism and the idea of progress, and Dickens's ambivalent treatment of children and childhood in the novels and in some essays. Book publications in landscape aesthetics and the visual arts include The Search for the Picturesque: Landscape Aesthetics and Tourism in Britain, 1760-1800 (1989) and The Picturesque: Sources and Documents (1994). The Search for the Picturesque examined developments in the taste for landscape in eighteenth-century England, in poetry and painting, and made a special study of the first wave of scenic tourists to the Lakes, North Wales and Scottish Highlands in this period, drawing on a range of published and unpublished contemporary travel diaries. It is due to be published in a Chinese translation in 2007.
The interest in landscape is reflected in Landscape and WesternArt (1999) a volume in the New Oxford History of Art series. This study reviews and explores some of the key 'moments' in the post-renaissance traditions of landscape art in Europe and North America, and considers the ideas and images of the natural world in art in the light of some recent theorising about landscape art.
Research Supervision
Malcolm Andrews has research and teaching interests in eighteenth and nineteenth-century literary and visual representations of landscape, and in Victorian literature and culture, particularly in Dickens, London and childhood. He is currently supervising
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Christine Corton, 'Fog in Victorian and Edwardian Culture'
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Chris Farman, ''Dickens and the significations of space'
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Michael Pronko, 'Dickens and Film, 1910-1940'
Professional Activities
Malcolm Andrews is a past President of The Dickens Society (of America). The Society publishes The Dickens Quarterly, a scholarly journal devoted to the life, times and works of Charles Dickens.
Teaching
Malcolm Andrews will be teaching:
Postgraduate
Selected Publications
Books:
- His most recent book on Dickens is:
- Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings (O.U.P., 2006)
Other:
This is the somewhat speculative text 'What Calls for Poetry?' presented as a guest of the International Conference of the Modern English Society of Korea in 2006 and published in Modern Studies in English Language and Literature (Korea) February 2007.