J. Paul Hunter

(2002)
Professor
Restoration & 18th Century Literature

Degrees

Ph.D. Rice University, 1963

Books

  • In Progress: Sound Argument: A Cultural History of the Anglophone Couplet.
  • Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English: A Bedford/Anthology (with Cynthia S. Wall). (forthcoming, 2010).
  • Bedford Cultural Edition of Moll Flanders. (forthcoming, 2009).
  • Second Edition of Norton Critical Frankenstein. (forthcoming, 2009).
  • The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Reader and other Essays (Cambridge, Tentative, 2003).
  • In Progress: Sound Argument: A Cultural History of the Anglophone Couplet.
  • Editor, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: A Norton Critical Edition. New York: W. W. Norton, (1996).
  • Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., (1990) (paperback, 1991); winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize in 1991.
  • Editor (with J. Douglas Canfield), Rhetorics of Order/Ordering Rhetorics in English Neoclassical Literature. Newark: University of Delaware Press, (1989).
  • Henry Fielding in His Time and Ours (with Martin Battestin). Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial LIbrary, 1987 (Clark Seminar of 1983).
  • Editor, The Plays of Edward Moore. New York: Garland Press, (1983).
  • Guest Editor, Genre. Special issue on "Forms of Fiction," Winter, (1977).
  • Occasional Form: Henry Fielding and the Chains of Circumstance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, (1975).
  • Editor, Moll Flanders (Crowell Critical Editions). New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, (1970).
  • The Reluctant Pilgrim. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, (1966).

Articles

  • “Prior to Pope: Some Notes on Casualties in Literary History,” forthcoming in Common Knowledge, August 2008.
  • “Masculinity and Poetry, and Pope: Gender, Language, Nation,” forthcoming in festschrift for Patricia Meyer Spacks, Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press, 2008.
  • “Defoe and the Poetic Tradition,” in Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe, ed. John Richetti, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, forthcoming 2008.
  • “Poetic Footprints: Some Formal Issues in Defoe’s Poetry,” forthcoming in Defoe’s Footprints: Essays in Honor of Maximillian Novak, ed. Robert Maniquis and Carl Fisher, Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2008.
  • “Making Books, Generating Genres,” The Commonwealth of Books: Essays in Honour of Ian Willison, ed. Wallace Kirsop (Monash: Centre for the Book, 2007), pp. 18-47.
  • “Seven Reasons for Rhyme,” in Ritual, Routine, and Regime: Repetition in Early Modern British and European Cultures, ed.  Lorna Clymer, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006, pp. 172-98.
  • “The Poetry of Occasions,” in A Concise Companion to the Restoration and
    Eighteenth Century, ed. Cynthia S. Wall, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005, pp. 202-25.
  • “The Poetry of Occasions,” in A Concise Companion to the Restoration and
    Eighteenth Century, ed. Cynthia S. Wall, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005, pp. 202-25.
  • "Lyric, Didactic, Satiric and Political Verse: Restoration to Pope," in John Richetti (ed.), New Cambridge History of English Literature, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005, pp. 160-208.
  • "Making books, Generating Genres," forthcoming in as-yet-untitled festschrift for Ian Willison, British Library, (2003).
  • "Gulliver's Travels and the Later Writings," The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift, ed. Christopher Fox Cambridge University Press, (forthcoming 2003).
  • "Literary Theory and Literary Practice: The Example of Pope," in Talking Forward, Talking Back, ed. Rudiger Ahrens and Kevin L. Cope, AMS Press, (2002).
  • "Couplets and Conversation," Cambridge Companion to Eithteenth-Century Poetry, ed. John Sitter, Cambridge University Press, (2001) 11-35.
  • "Sleeping Beauties: Are Historical Aesthetics Worth Recovering?" Eighteenth-Century Studies, 34:1 (Fall 2000) 1-20.
  • "Formalism and History: Binarism and the Anglophone Couplet," Special Issue on "Formalism,"ed. Marshall Brown and Susan Wolfson, Modern Language Quarterly 61:1 (March 2000) 109-129.
  • "Serious Reflections on Daniel Defoe (with an Excursus on the Farther Adventures of Ian Watt and Two Notes on the Present State of Literary Studies)," Special Issue on "Reconsidering the Rise of the Novel," Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 12:2,3 (January-April 2000) 227-37.

Honors

  • Festschrift: Eighteenth-Century Genre and Culture: Serious Reflections on Occasional Forms: Essays in honor of J. Paul Hunter, ed. Dennis Todd and Cynthia Wall (Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press and London: Associated Univ. Presses, 2001).
  • Consultant (Foundations):

    John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (fellowships), 1987-
    National Humanities Center, 1987-
    National Humanities Center Selection Committee on Fellowships, 2000
    Woodrow Wilson Center, 1991-1995
    Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 1995-
    Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminars, 1995-
    Andrew W. Mellon Senior Advisor, 1999-
    Senior Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1985-1986
  • Fellow, National Humanities Center, 1986, 1995-1996
  • Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, 1976-1977