‘Thomas Love Peacock: Crotchets Rampant’
with S. Dumke, The Cambridge Quarterly, 2018
‘Jane Austen’s Universals’
Essays in Criticism, vol. 68, issue 2 (2018), pp. 211 – 233
Professor
Freya Johnston
Hazel Eardley Wilmot Tutorial Fellow in English Language and Literature
University Lecturer
Email: freya.johnston@ell.ox.ac.uk
Teaching
Undergraduate
- Introduction to Literary Studies
- seventeenth- to nineteenth-century period papers
- special authors and special topics
Graduate
MSt in English, 1700-1830
Research
Thomas Love Peacock: I am general editor of the seven-volume Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock (the first two volumes appeared in 2016) and co-editor of his penultimate novel, Crotchet Castle (1831).
Jane Austen: I’m now finishing a critical study of the young Jane Austen, which will be published by Princeton University Press. In 2017, Kathryn Sutherland and I published a newly edited and annotated text of Jane Austen’s Teenage Writings for the Oxford World’s Classics series.
Other research interests include Pope, Swift, epic and mock-epic, Byron, Hazlitt, Dickens, German literature (especially Kafka), prose style, practical criticism, and comparative literature.