Dr Alice Wickenden
Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in Early Modern Literature
Contact details
- Email: alice.wickenden@ed.ac.uk
Availability
Office hours: Tuesdays, 11-12, 50 GS 2.32. Please email to make an appointment.
Background
I completed my undergraduate and MPhil degrees at the University of Cambridge before moving to do a collaborative PhD (CDP) between the British Library and Queen Mary, University of London. I then held a position at Durham University before coming to Edinburgh.
I am also a poet and creative writer.
Undergraduate teaching
Early Modern Tragedy
Shakespearean Sexualities
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
No
Research summary
My primary research interests lie in the relationship between literature and heritage institutions, the relationship between early modern science and literary metaphors, the material culture of books, and historical and sociological theories of early modern collecting.
My first monograph is titled Library Objects: Hans Sloane and the creation of the British Library. My next project will involve looking at early modern scientific printed letters as a literary form.
I am also interested in early modern botany; I have been involved with researching the history of saffron in Cambridgeshire as part of the CRASSH funded project ‘The History of Saffron' and with the Oak Spring Garden Foundation funded project ‘Picturing the Flora of China: James Cuninghame (1665-1709) and his Plant Illustrations from Amoy’.
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[Review of] Minerva's French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France. By Gelbart, Nina Rattner. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2021. 360 p. 19 b. and w. illus. £30.00 (hb). ISBN 978-0-300-25256-9
(2 pages)
In:
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 45, pp. 396-397
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12833
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published) -
[Review of] Jason Scott-Warren, Shakespeare’s First Reader: the Paper Trails of Richard Stonley. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. ix + 330 pp. $45.00/£39.00. ISBN 978‐0812251456 (hb)
(2 pages)
In:
Renaissance Studies, vol. 35, pp. 739-740
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/rest.12686
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published) -
Visualising the library: Bibliography and material culture within the Sloane printed books project dataset
In:
Publishing History, vol. 83, pp. 19-35
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Things to know before beginning, or: Why provenance matters in the library
In:
Inscription, vol. 1
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
[Review of] 'Uncovering the Arcane: Rethinking Early Modern Archives'
(5 pages)
In:
Renaissance Studies, vol. 34
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/rest.12614
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article (Published)