Professor Cedric Brown
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Emeritus Professor of English
Areas of interest
- Seventeenth-century literature;
- Milton;
- Discourses of friendship;
- Verse miscellanies;
- Literature as social exchange
Research projects
Continued work on verse miscellanies.
Background
Former Head of Department and Director of Research in Arts and Humanities; founder-editor of book series “Early Modern Literature in History".
Selected publications
- Friendship and its Discourses in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press, 2016)
- The Early Seventeenth Century Verse Miscellany: Directions and Re-directions (Routledge, 2025)
- “A provincial manuscript miscellany, the influence of the printed miscellanies, and the scribal aspirations of Leonard Wheatcroft, artisan and church clerk” in The Oxford Handbook of Medieval and Renaissance Miscellanies (ed. Joshua Eckhardt, due 2026)