Joseph Phelan
Biographic Data
| ID | 9386982 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Phelan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Phelan |
| SIGNATURE | PHELAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Public Health England |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9815-1071 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition
Establishing a fresh critical paradigm, this volume shows how the 1850s was significantly defined by forms of increasing intellectual, class, and geographical mobility. It saw the flourishing of major Victorian writers, including George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, W. M. Thackeray, Matthew Arnold, Charles Kingsley, Anthony Trollope, Tennyson, and Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Outputs by these writers were read alongside a v…
The Jewish ‘monopoly’ of the slave trade in the early Middle Ages
Phelan examines the evidence to support the claim that the assertion that Jews played a leading role in the slave trade in the period following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire originated with the work of a number of late nineteenth-century historians, particularly Heinrich Graetz and Wilhelm Roscher. He finds prior examples of this historical motif in the work of several earlier historians, and traces its origins back to the Henry Hart M…
Empire and Orientalisms
Robert Browning
The Nineteenth-Century Sonnet
What was the appeal of 'the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground' to Romantic and Victorian poets? How did a form which had fallen into disuse in the early eighteenth-century become a central and enduring p
The Political Sonnet
Matthew Arnold’s response to the French Revolution of 1848 was articulated in part through a pair of sonnets addressed ‘To a Republican Friend’, the friend in question being his close confidant and poetic rival Arthur Hugh Clough. The first of these sonnets expresses a mild if not entirely convincing enthusiasm for the general aims of the revolution, while the second voices an altogether more detached and sceptical view of events: Yet, when I mus…
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The Nineteenth-Century Sonnet
What was the appeal of 'the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground' to Romantic and Victorian poets? How did a form which had fallen into disuse in the early eighteenth-century become a central and enduring p
The Political Sonnet
Matthew Arnold’s response to the French Revolution of 1848 was articulated in part through a pair of sonnets addressed ‘To a Republican Friend’, the friend in question being his close confidant and poetic rival Arthur Hugh Clough. The first of these sonnets expresses a mild if not entirely convincing enthusiasm for the general aims of the revolution, while the second voices an altogether more detached and sceptical view of events: Yet, when I mus…
Empire and Orientalisms
Robert Browning
The Jewish ‘monopoly’ of the slave trade in the early Middle Ages
Phelan examines the evidence to support the claim that the assertion that Jews played a leading role in the slave trade in the period following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire originated with the work of a number of late nineteenth-century historians, particularly Heinrich Graetz and Wilhelm Roscher. He finds prior examples of this historical motif in the work of several earlier historians, and traces its origins back to the Henry Hart M…
Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition
Establishing a fresh critical paradigm, this volume shows how the 1850s was significantly defined by forms of increasing intellectual, class, and geographical mobility. It saw the flourishing of major Victorian writers, including George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, W. M. Thackeray, Matthew Arnold, Charles Kingsley, Anthony Trollope, Tennyson, and Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Outputs by these writers were read alongside a v…
History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Poetry Analysis and Criticism (3 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Poetry (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sonnet (2 works)