Carl Thompson

Dr Carl Thompson


Reader in English Literature
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Academic and research departments

Literature and Languages.

About

Affiliations and memberships

British Association for Romantics Studies (BARS)
Member
Raymond Williams Society
Member (previously secretary)

Research

Research interests

Teaching

Sustainable development goals

My research interests are related to the following:

Quality Education UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 logo
Gender Equality UN Sustainable Development Goal 5 logo
Responsible Consumption and Production UN Sustainable Development Goal 12 logo
Climate Action UN Sustainable Development Goal 13 logo
Life Below Water UN Sustainable Development Goal 14 logo
Life on Land UN Sustainable Development Goal 15 logo
Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions UN Sustainable Development Goal 16 logo
Partnerships for the UN Sustainable Development Goal 17 logo

Publications

Highlights

Books:

  • Travel Writing, in the New Critical Idiom series (monograph; Routledge, 2011, 2nd edition 2025).
  • Jemima Kindersley: Letters from Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope and the East Indies (1777) & Maria Graham: Journal of a Residence in India (1812) (new editions, with introductions, forming Volume 1 of Women’s Travel Writings in India; Chawton House Library / Taylor and Francis, 2020)
  • The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing (edited, multi-author collection of 42 chapters; Routledge, 2016)
  • Sarah Wilson: The Fruits of Enterprize (new edition, with introduction, in the Chawton House Library’s 4-vol. series Women’s Travel Writings in Africa and the Middle East; Pickering and Chatto, 2014)
  • Shipwreck in Art and Literature: Images and Interpretations from Antiquity to the Present Day (edited, multi-author collection of 12 essays, with 12,000-word introduction; Routledge, 2013)
  • The Suffering Traveller and the Romantic Imagination (monograph; Oxford University Press, 2007)

Journal Articles and Book Chapters:                                                                                           

  • ‘Byron and Travel’, in Alan Rawes and Jonathan Shears (eds), The Oxford Handbook to Byron (Oxford University Press, 2024)
  • ‘Maria Graham and the Chilean Earthquake of 1822: Contextualizing the First Female-Authored Article in Transactions of the Geological Society’, in C.V. Burek and B.M. Higgs (eds), Celebrating 100 Years of Female Fellowship of the Geological Society: Discovering Forgotten Histories (Geol. Soc. Special Publications, 2021)
  • ‘Producing and Protesting Imperial Map-Mindedness: Multimodal Pedagogy and Feminist Frustration in Sarah Atkins Wilson’s Geographical Primers’, in Sally Bushell, Julia Carlson, and Damian Walford Davies (eds), Romantic Cartographies: Literary Mapping and Romantic Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
  • ‘Women Travellers, Romantic-Era Science and the Banksian Empire’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society (2019)
  • ‘Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing’, in The Cambridge History of Travel Writing (eds Nandini Das and Tim Youngs; Cambridge University Press, 2019)
  • ‘Journeys to Authority: Reassessing Women’s Early Travel Writing 1763-1862’, Introduction to SI of Women’s Writing 24.2 (2017)
  • ‘Sentiment and Scholarship: Hybrid Historiography and Historical Authority in Maria Graham’s South American Journals’, in SI of Women’s Writing 24.2 (2017)
  • ‘Des Exploratrices: Genre Féminin, Voyage et Decouverte Dans La Tradition Britannique, 1780-1850’, in Des Voyages Vers L’Inconnu Entre 1630 et 1880 (ed. Florence D’Souza; Editions L’Harmattan, 2016)
  • ‘Introduction’, in The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing (ed. Carl Thompson; Routledge, 2016)
  • ‘Travel Writing Now’, in The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing (ed. Carl Thompson; Routledge, 2016)
  • ‘“Only the Amblyrhynchus”: Maria Graham’s Scientific Editing of the Voyage of the Blonde’, Journal of Literature and Science, 8.1 (2015)
  • ‘Shipwrecks, Mutineers and Cannibals: Maritime Mythology and the Political Unconscious in Eighteenth-Century Britain’, in Framing the Ocean, 1700 to the Present: Envisaging the Sea as Social Space (ed. Tricia Cusack; Ashgate, 2014)
  • ‘Shipwreck and the Forging of the Commercial Nation: the 1786 Wreck of the Halsewell’, in Shipwreck in Art and Literature (ed. Carl Thompson; Routledge, 2013)
  • ‘Introduction: Shipwreck, Modernity, Postmodernity’, in Shipwreck in Art and Literature (ed. Carl Thompson; Routledge, 2013)
  • ‘The Explorer as Saint: Mungo Park in West Africa’. Extract from The Suffering Traveller and the Romantic Imagination, reprinted in Travel Writing: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, 4 vols. (eds. Tim Youngs and Charles Forsdick; Routledge, 2012)
  • ‘Earthquakes and Petticoats: Maria Graham, Geology, and Early Nineteenth-Century ‘Polite’ Science’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 17.3 (2012)
  • ‘The Grosvenor Shipwreck and the Figure of the Female Crusoe: Hannah Hewit, Mary Jane Meadows and Romantic-Era Feminist and Anti-Feminist Debate’, English Studies in Africa, 51.2 (2008)
  • ‘Romantic Travel Writing’, in Romanticism: An Oxford Guide (ed. Nicholas Roe; Oxford University Press, 2004)
  • ‘The Heroic Age of the Tin Can: Technology, Ideology and Exploration in the Arctic, 1818-1835’, in Maritime Empires (eds. D. Killingray, M. Lincoln and N. Rigby; Boydell and Brewer, 2004)
  • ‘The Double Voice of James Bruce, Abyssinian Traveller’ in Eastern Deserts: Minerals, Missionaries and Explorers (eds. Janet Starkey and Okashi El-Daly; Astene Books, 2001).
  • ‘Redmond O’Hanlon: A Critical Appraisal and Bibliography’, Post-War Literatures in English (March, 2000)

 

Carl Thompson (2024) ‘Byron and Travel’