Dr Patrick Spedding
PhD (Monash University), BA, Hons (University of Tasmania)
Patrick Spedding curriculum vitae [
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Biography
I was educated in Sydney, Hobart and Melbourne and received my Ph.D from Monash University in 2004. My doctoral project, A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood, was published in 2004 and won the MLA Prize for a Distinguished Bibliography in 2006. From 2007–2009 I was editor of Script and Print and an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow conducting research on eighteenth-century erotica.
Link to personal web page
Patrick Spedding personal website
Patrick Spedding personal Script and Print website
Research interests
Book history / print culture
Broadly speaking, most of my research focuses on the British book trade, and the relationship between authors, publishers, readers and other stakeholders. I am interested in the ways in which the physical manifestation of a book influences contemporary and present-day readers as well as reflecting the conditions under which it was created.
English literature, esp. 1660–1830
My literary research began with Eliza Haywood and other women writers of the ‘long’ eighteenth-century. But I have become increasingly interested in the fantastic, gothic and supernatural fiction and in “sub-literary” forms, such as erotic songs, squibs, journalism and popular culture generally.
Selected publications
- Spedding, P. (2011) ‘Eliza Haywood at The Sign of Fame’. 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, Vol 17.
- Spedding, P. (2011) ‘ “The New Machine”: Discovering the Limits of ECCO,’ Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol 44
- Spedding, P. (2011) ‘The Publication of Teresia Constantia Phillips's Apology (1748–49)’ . Script and Print: Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, Vol 35.
- Spedding, P. [and J. Lambert] (2011) ‘Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny and the Myth of Metonymy’ Studies in Philology, Vol 108.
- Spedding, P. (2010) ‘The Many Mrs Grey: Confusion and Lies about Elizabeth Caroline Grey, Catherine Maria Grey, Maria Georgina Grey and others’. The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Vol 104.