Kerry McSweeney
Aesthetic readings of poems and short stories.
B.A., Ph.D. (University of Toronto), Molson Professor of English
Books:
The Realist Short Story of the Powerful Glimpse: Chekhov to Carver(2007).
What鈥檚 the Import? Nineteenth-Century Poems and Contemporary Critical Practice听(2007).
The Language of the Senses: Sensory-Perceptual Dynamics in Wordsworth, Coleridge, Thoreau, Whitman, and Dickinson听(1998).
Supreme Attachments: Studies in Victorian Love Poetry听(1998).
George Eliot: A Literary Life聽(1991; 1996).
"Invisible Man": Race and Identity听(1988).
"Moby-Dick": Ishmael's Mighty Book听(1986).
"Middlemarch"听(1984).
Four Contemporary Novelists: Angus Wilson, Brian Moore, John Fowles, V.S. Naipaul听(1983).
Tennyson and Swinburne as Romantic Naturalists听(1981).
Books edited:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.聽Aurora Leigh. Oxford World鈥檚 Classics (1993; third printing 1994; reissued 1998).
Thomas Carlyle.聽Sartor Resartus聽(with Peter Sabor). Oxford World鈥檚 Classics (1987; reprinted1991; reissued 1999)
Angus Wilson.聽Diversity and Depth in Fiction: Selected Critical Writings(1983).
Selected articles and contributions to books
"Dream Representations in聽Wuthering Heights,听Crime and Punishment, and聽War and Peace."听Symposium聽59 (2005): 163-78.
"Literary Allusion and the Poetry of Seamus Heaney."听Style聽33 (1999): 130-43.
"David Copperfield聽and the Music of Memory."听Dickens Studies Annual23 (1994): 93-119.
"Intimations of Wordsworth in A. M. Klein's 鈥楢utobiographical鈥�."Canadian Poetry聽35 (1994): 74-9.
"The Silver-Grey Discourse of The Music of Time."听English Studies in Canada聽18 (1992): 43-58.
"The Ending of聽The Mill on the Floss."听English Studies in Canada聽12 (1986): 55-68.
"Mordecai Richler."听Canadian Writers and their Works, fiction Series vol. 6 (1985).
"Salinger Revisited."听Critical Quarterly聽20 (1978): 61-68
- SSHRC research grants
- Leave fellowships
- Book subventions.
Queen's University, University of Warwick, University of Victoria.