Timothy Milnes
Professor of Romantic Literature and Philosophy
- English Literature
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 3615
- Email: Tim.Milnes@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
Address
- Street
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Room 2.06
50 George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LH
Availability
Office Hours in Semester 1 (2023-24)
Friday 4-5pm
Background
Tim Milnes obtained his MA in English and Philosophy from St Andrews University (1992) and his DPhil from St Hugh's College, Oxford (1997). While still a doctoral student he was a Lecturer in English at Christ Church University College, Canterbury (1995-98). Before joining the Dept. of English Literature at Edinburgh in 2001, he was Junior Research Fellow and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University College, Oxford (1998-2001). Tim has published widely on the literature and philosophy of Romanticism and of the 'long' eighteenth century. He is the author of The Testimony of Sense: Empiricism and the Essay from Hume to Hazlitt (Oxford UP, 2019), The Truth about Romanticism: Pragmatism and Idealism in Keats, Shelley, Coleridge (Cambridge UP, 2010), Knowledge and Indifference in English Romantic Prose (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and William Wordsworth: The Prelude (Palgrave, 2009). He is the co-editor, with Kerry Sinanan, of Romanticism, Sincerity, and Authenticity (Palgrave, 2010) and he has published many articles on a range of writers, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jeremy Bentham, William Hazlitt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, and Charles Lamb.
Postgraduate teaching
Programme Director, MSc in Literature and Modernity
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Research summary
Tim welcomes research proposals at MScR or PhD level on any aspect of romantic literature and culture, as well as projects on the 'long' eighteenth century, particularly those pursuing an interdisciplinary approach.
He has supervised PhD and MScR projects on topics such as Byron and the book trade, Wordsworth and education, Romanticism and genre, Shelley and empathy, the Lyrical Ballads and the German tour of 1798-99, Romantic confessional literature, Romantic concepts of space and performativity, and the idea of China in late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century literature.