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I am a writer and academic whose work focuses on three main areas: LGBTQ Studies (especially histories of sexuality), Eighteenth-Century Studies (especially poetry), and Irish Studies (especially twentieth-century writing and culture).
As well as teaching and researching in these fields, I have published fiction and poetry, and I am interested in the relationship between 'critical' and 'creative' modes of thought.
Before coming to work at the University of Sussex, I studied at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. My PhD used the letters of Thomas Gray and his circle to explore male homoeroticism in eighteenth-century British culture. Since then I have continued to research the gendering of eighteenth-century and Romantic poetics, but have also published work on Jane Austen, queer theory, and notions of sexual citizenship.
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Textual Practice, Jan 1, 1997
For many years,'the eighteenth century'meant political corruption, Augustan sat... more For many years,'the eighteenth century'meant political corruption, Augustan satire and the rise of the novelor, in the words of Sylvia Plath,'all those smug men writing tight little couplets and being so dead keen on reason'. 1 Academic accounts of the period were ...
Introducing a special issue of Women's Writing on Jane Austen, Mary Waldron warns of "two dangers... more Introducing a special issue of Women's Writing on Jane Austen, Mary Waldron warns of "two dangers…in the ease with which critics currently feel able to pick any aspect of human life and employ it in some disquisition about Austen." The "more serious" pitfall-which Waldron calls "the "why-not" approach"-involves "the identification of supposed oblique references within Austen"s texts which provide links with issues of present-day concern, often involving strained and unlikely interpretations of language and allusion." As an instance she cites Susan M. Korba"s cry of "Why shouldn't Emma be a lesbian?"-a question which depends, in Waldron"s view, "on what is not in the text" and which therefore risks "identifying a novel which Austen might perhaps have written, but didn"t." 1
Books by Vincent Quinn
Textual Practice, Jan 1, 1997
For many years,'the eighteenth century'meant political corruption, Augustan sat... more For many years,'the eighteenth century'meant political corruption, Augustan satire and the rise of the novelor, in the words of Sylvia Plath,'all those smug men writing tight little couplets and being so dead keen on reason'. 1 Academic accounts of the period were ...
Introducing a special issue of Women's Writing on Jane Austen, Mary Waldron warns of "two dangers... more Introducing a special issue of Women's Writing on Jane Austen, Mary Waldron warns of "two dangers…in the ease with which critics currently feel able to pick any aspect of human life and employ it in some disquisition about Austen." The "more serious" pitfall-which Waldron calls "the "why-not" approach"-involves "the identification of supposed oblique references within Austen"s texts which provide links with issues of present-day concern, often involving strained and unlikely interpretations of language and allusion." As an instance she cites Susan M. Korba"s cry of "Why shouldn't Emma be a lesbian?"-a question which depends, in Waldron"s view, "on what is not in the text" and which therefore risks "identifying a novel which Austen might perhaps have written, but didn"t." 1