Alex Walton

Biography: 

Publications

  • “Milton and Some Extemporaries,” English Literary History (ELH), 92:4 (fortchoming, Winter 2025)
  • “Pyramid Schemes: William Petty and the Use of the Superfluous,” Modern Language Quarterly (MLQ), 86:1 (forthcoming, Spring 2025)

Talks and papers

  • “Winstanley’s Reason.” Paper for “Decorum and Early Modern Aesthetics: A Roundtable,” Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, March 2024.
  • “Clarendon’s House – by St. Paul’s Churchyard – under the sign of the Pyramid.” Paper presented to the Andrew Marvell Society, Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, March 2024.
  • “Milton and Some Extemporaries.” Paper presented to the Andrew Marvell Society, South Central Renaissance Conference, Berkeley, CA, April 2023.
  • “News, Prayer, and the History of the Sentence.” Paper for “Style as Social Form in English Prose: A Roundtable," Renaissance Society of America, San Juan, March 2023.
  • “Foreshortened Time and Marvell’s ‘Geometrick Yeer.’” Paper presented to the Andrew Marvell Society, South Central Renaissance Conference, March 2021.
  • Queen Mab on the Night Shift” Paper presented at Sibylline Leaves: Chaos and Compilation in the Romantic Period, A Bicentennial Conference, Birkbeck College, University of London.
  • “‘Keats, Happiness, Repetition and ‘Repetion.’” Paper presented at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Annual Conference, Berkeley, CA.