Michael Goode

Mike Goode majored in Economics at Princeton University and went on to get a Ph.D. in English from The University of Chicago. He specializes in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature and culture, with a particular emphasis on the novel, poetry, intellectual history, gender, and visual satire. His book Sentimental Masculinity and the Rise of History, 1790-1890 uses texts by Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, Thomas Rowlandson, and various historians to chart the emergence of a feelings-based historical epistemology in the long nineteenth century. His writings on William Blake's proverbs, the gender of history, the erotics of historicism, the comic public sphere, and the ethics of the postmodern condition have appeared in several venues, including ELH , Representations , Textual Practice , and PMLA . He teaches undergraduate courses in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, the historical novel, tourism, crime and conspiracy, disaster, masculinity, and historicist theory. He has begun work on two studies: the first, on how Romantic poets and novelists theorize reception and the law; the second, on how Romantic comic literature addresses its audiences' bodies.

Areas of Supervision: My Ph.D. thesis supervision primarily has been with students working on Victorian British novels and print culture. Topics include: investigative journalism, crime fiction, and liberalism; the novel's refashioning of Biblical authority; and the radical periodical press. More generally, I am willing to supervise projects devoted to Romantic literature and culture, the history of history, the history of the novel, and late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century intellectual history.

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