Berkeley English Lecturers and Postdocs

Morton D. Paley

Emeritus

337 Wheeler Hall
mpaley@berkeley.edu

Specialties

18th-Century British
19th-Century British

Professional Statement

My current research is on literature and art in Britain during the later eighteenth century, and, more specifically, on the art of George Romney on literary subjects.

I am co-editor of Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, pubished t the University of Rochester.

I am co-editing The European Receeption of William Blake, a volume of new essays to be published by Bloomsbury.

Books

Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Fine Arts

Although Coleridge's thinking and writing about the fine arts was both considerable and interesting, this has not been the subject of a book before. Coleridge owed his initiation into art to Sir George Beaumont. In 1803-4 he had frequent opportunit....(read more)

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19th-Century British

Current Research

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