ProfessorRichard Lansdown

Romanticism, in particular Lord Byron, Jane Austen, and William Wordsworth; the history of ideas, in particular Western notions of the insular Pacific; literary theory (from a traditionalist point of view); Victorian literature, in particular John Ruskin and Jane Welsh Carlyle; informal non-fictional literature, such as letters, journals, and memoirs. I serve on the editorial boards of the journals Romanticism, the Keats-Shelley Review, and the Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies, and I am a trustee of the Wordsworth Conference Foundation, UK.