Jonathan Wild
Senior Lecturer

- English Literature
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 651 3191
- Email: JWild@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
Address
- Street
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Room 2.11
50 George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LH
Availability
My Office Hour is at 3pm on Mondays
Background
After completing his PhD at the University of Kent, Jonathan Wild held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for the History of the Book, before being appointed as Lecturer at Edinburgh in September 2005. He is the author of 'The Rise of the Office Clerk in Literary Culture, 1880-1939' (Palgrave, 2006), and 'The Great Edwardian Emporium: The Literature of the 1900s' (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming). He has also published articles on George Gissing, Jerome K. Jerome, Arnold Bennett, and the popular literary magazine John O’London’s Weekly.
Research summary
Dr Wild’s main areas of research are focused on the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. He is particularly interested in the relationship between literature and social history during this era. More specifically, he has published work on the following writers and topics: the relationship between white collar work and print culture 1880-1939; Jerome K Jerome, George Grossmith and comic writing in the 1880/90s; George Gissing; the popular literary magazine John O’London’s Weekly and the formation of interwar ‘middlebrow’ writing; and the literary depictions of clerks-turned-soldiers during and after the First World War.
Dr Wild would welcome research proposals in any area of late Victorian/Edwardian Literature, and in particular he would welcome proposals which have connections with any of the research areas listed above.
Project activity
Dr Wild's current projects include a monograph on literary culture in the Edwardian period for Edinburgh University Press, and further investigations into ‘middlebrow’ material culture during the interwar period.
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Sex and the single Edwardian girl: Sex and censorship in the Edwardian novel
(13 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315146843-14
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Literature of the 1900s: The Great Edwardian Emporium
(224 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748635061.001.0001
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Kipps and The History of Mr Polly
Research output: › Scholarly edition (Published) -
Introduction
(14 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle
(263 pages)
Research output: › Scholarly edition (Published) -
The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle
Research output: › Scholarly edition (Published) -
A loosening of silk ribbons – Laurence Housman, John Murray and the publishing sensation of 1900
(2 pages)
In:
Tls-The Times Literary Supplement, pp. 14-15
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
A Strongly Felt Need: Wilfred Whitten/John O'London and the Rise of the new Reading Public
(14 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Watching the papers daily in fear and trembling: The Boer War and the Invention of Masculine Middlebrow Literary Culture
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published)