Lorna Clymer

(2008)
Visiting Professor
Restoration & 18th-Century Literature

Degrees

Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, 1994
M.A. University of California, Santa Barbara, 1989
B.A. University of California, Berkeley (Classical Languages), 1978

Books

  • Co-editor, festschrift collection: Historical Boundaries, Narrative Forms: Essays on British Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century in Honor of Everett Zimmerman, U of Delaware Press, 2007.
  • Editor, collection of essays: Ritual, Routine, and Regime: Repetition in Early Modern British and European Cultures, UTP/UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series, University of Toronto Press, 2006.
  • Editor, collection of essays: Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century British Religion, Texts, Cultures, in submission.
  • Contributing editor, The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, 3rd ed.,
    volume 3, eighteenth-century “minor” poets (forthcoming, Cambridge UP, 2009).
  • In progress: Exemplary Authority: Personal Identity and Style in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century British Didactic Poetry.

Articles

  • “Noticing Death: British Funeral Invitations and the Invention of the British Obituary,” in Vital Matters: Conception, Birth, Death, and Beyond in Early Modern Western Cultures, ed. Helen Deutsch and Mary Terrall (forthcoming 2009).
  • “The New Eloquence, 1660-1720,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon, ed. Peter McCullough et al (forthcoming, Oxford UP, 2009).
  • “The Funeral Elegy in History,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy, ed. Karen Weisman (forthcoming, Oxford UP, 2008).
  •  “Philosophical Tours of the Universe in British Poetry, 1700-1729, Or, The Soaring Muse,” in Culture and Authority in the Baroque, ed. Massimo Ciavolella and Patrick Coleman, U of Toronto Press, 2005.
  • “Cromwell’s Head and Milton’s Hair: Corpse Theory in Spectacular Bodies of the Interregnum,” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 40 (1999): 91-112, plus errata notice, 41 (2000): 1.
  • “Graved in Tropes: The Figural Logic of Epitaphs and Elegies in Blair, Gray, Cowper, and Wordsworth,” ELH 62 (1995): 347-386.
  • Review essay: “Bodies, Plants, Volcanoes, Stars: Early Modern British Scientific Writing, Collected”: Eighteenth-Century Studies (forthcoming Spring 2008).
  • Review essay: “The Self Found in Histories”: Eighteenth-Century Studies 35 (2002): 284-295.

Honors

  • Visiting Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles, November 2006-October 2007.
  • William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Short-Term Fellowship, April-May, 2001.
  • British Academy/Huntington Library Short-Term Research Fellowship, Summer, 1999.
  • American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Kolb Research Travel Fellowship, Spring 1999.
  • Huntington Library/Lincoln College, Oxford Exchange Fellow, Summer 1998.
  • NEH Summer Seminar participant: “The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self,” Leo Damrosch, Harvard University, June-July, 1998.
  • Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Fall-Winter, 1996-1997.
  • William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Short-Term Fellowship, August, 1995.