Gerald Egan

Gerald Egan

Areas of Interest

• Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literature
• Visual Culture
• New Media

Publications

• “The Authorial Self in Image and Text in Pope’s Poetic Editions.” Forthcoming 2010 in Book Illustration in the Long Eighteenth Century, ed. Christina Ionescu (Cambridge, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing).


• “Radical Moral Authority and Desire: The Image of the Male Romantic Poet in Frontispiece Portraits of Byron and Shelly.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (forthcoming Spring 2009).


• "Black-letter and the Broadside Ballad," forthcoming Fall 2009 in Early Modern Broadside Ballads: from the Pepys Collection, ed. Patricia Fumerton (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies).


• "‘Devotion and Morality: Take Heed’s a Fair Thing," forthcoming Fall 2009 in Early Modern Broadside Ballads: from the Pepys Collection, ed. Patricia Fumerton (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies).

Presentations

• “Byron, Nietzsche, and the god of light.” NASSR Conference, Duke University, May 2009 (Forthcoming).


• “The Image of the male romantic poet in frontispiece portraits of Byron and Shelly.” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, Chicago, February 2007.


• "The Frontispiece Portrait in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" NASSR Conference, Purdue University, September 2006.


• “The Frontispiece Steel Engraving of the Male Romantic Poet: Fame and Visual Celebrity in the New Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” MMLA, Milwaukee, November 2005.


• “Fame and the Image of the Male Romantic Poet: The Frontispiece Engraving in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," International Conference on Romanticism, Colorado Springs, October 2005.


• “Creating an Electronic Archive of English Broadside Ballads,” Society for Textual Scholarship, New York City, March 2005.
• “The Chaucerian Narrator in the Early Dream Poems: A Postcolonial Reading,” Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, December 2004.
• “Inter-connections Between the Classical and the Romantic: Translation and Intertextuality in Keats and Shelley” PAMLA Conference, Portland, November 2004.
• “Borderlines between the Classical and the Romantic: Translation and Intertextuality in Keats and Shelley,” International Conference on Romanticism, Laredo, Texas, October 2004.
• “Unhomely Chaucer,” Princeton Graduate Medieval Colloquium, Princeton, March 2004.
• "Turning Text into Software: Technical Writing and Literary Studies in the Digital Age," Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Pittsburgh, March 2004.
• “Collaboration in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and The Prelude: A Bakhtinian View,” Texas Tech University Graduate English Student Conference, February 2004.
• “The Male Romantic as Written by Victorian Women: Masculine Identities in Wives and Daughters and Villette,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, November, 2003.