School of English

Dr Paddy Bullard

Lecturer  
Phone: 01227 (82)4517 Office: NC34
Email: P.S.Bullard@kent.ac.uk  

I came to the School of English in 2009 from St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, where I was Rank Junior Research Fellow, lecturer in English, and AHRC Research Fellow working on the Cambridge Works of Jonathan Swift. My research interests cover the ‘long’ eighteenth century, and focus on conjunctions between literary, political and intellectual history. In Edmund Burke and the Art of Rhetoric (Cambridge University Press, 2011) I trace the origins of Burke’s thinking about political deliberation in seventeenth-century debates about moral knowledge, and in the ‘patriot’ political culture of eighteenth-century Ireland. This research has also yielded a recently-completed handbook and catalogue, The Library and Reading of Edmund Burke, and I am working on a new critical edition of Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful. These two projects connect my work on Burke with a second set of research interests, in the history of the book, library history, textual criticism and digital editing. A volume of essays (co-edited with James McLaverty) titled Swift, the Text and the Book (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2013) draws together new work on Swift from a range of bibliographical disciplines. I am co-editor and current manager of www.jonathanswiftarchive.org.uk, a major digital resource funded by the AHRC, and designed as an electronic supplement to the forthcoming Cambridge Works of Jonathan Swift. My new monograph project has roots in book history, although it is growing in a different direction. Its subject is early-modern ideas about personal or ‘tacit knowledge’, and particularly the efforts of eighteenth-century printers and authors to embody such knowledge in the form of the codex. Chapters include investigations of the ‘Scriblerian pseudo-arts’, of political and sexual innuendo in Sterne and his contemporaries, and of the educational theories of Rousseau, Macaulay and Wollstonecraft.

Recent and forthcoming publications:

Swift, the Text and the Book, co-editor with James McLaverty (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Author of chapter, ‘Swift, libraries and the ordering of books’.

'The Ancients and the Moderns’, in Jonathan Swift in Context, ed. Pat Rogers (Cambridge University Press, 2012)

Edmund Burke and the Art of Rhetoric (Cambridge University Press, 2011). ISBN 1-10700-657-0

'Burke's aesthetic psychology', in The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke, eds. David Dwan and Christopher Insole (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

'Rhetoric and eloquence’, in The Oxford Handbook to British Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, ed. James Harris (Oxford University Press, 2011).

'Digital editing and the eighteenth-century text: Works, archives and miscellanies'. Eighteenth-Century Life, 2011.

'Burke Among the poets: Milton, Lucretius and the Philosophical Enquiry' – in The Science of Sensibility: Reading Burke's Philosophical Enquiry, ed. Michael Funk Dekard (Dordrecht: Springer ‘International Archives for the History of Ideas’, 2010

 ‘The figure of enlightenment: traditions of paradox in Rousseau and Burke’ – in Enlightenment and Emancipation, eds. Susan Manning and Peter France (Bucknell University Press, 2007). ISBN 0-83875-619-0

'The meaning of the 'Sublime and Beautiful' : Shaftesburian contexts and rhetorical issues in Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry'  – Review of English Studies, 56.224 (2005), 169-191. ISSN 0034-6551. RES Prize Essay, 2005

Cultures of Whiggism: new essays on English literature and culture in the long eighteenth century, co-editor with David Womersley and Abigail Williams (University of Delaware Press, 2005). Author of chapter, ‘The latitude of Whiggism: Burnet, Tillotson and Lord William Russell in Whig historiography, 1675-1775’. ISBN 0-87413-896-5

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Last Updated: 12/05/2011