Academic Staff

Dr Mark Sandy

Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Studies

Biography

Mark Sandy has research interests in Romanticism, especially the Second-Generation Romantic poetry of Keats and Shelley. He completed a monograph on Poetics of Self and Form in Keats and Shelley (Ashgate, 2005) and co-edited a critical collection of essays on Romantic Echoes in the Victorian Era (Ashgate, 2008). He has also edited a volume on Romantic Presences in the Twentieth Century (Ashgate, 2012). He plans to co-edit a collection of critical essays on Decadent Romanticism. He is currently completing a book-length study of Romanticism, Memory, and Mourning (under contract with Ashgate). Outside of the nineteenth century, he has research interests in both critical theory and twentieth-century American Literature (including Jewish American Literature of the post-war era). In the future, he plans to write a study of Transforming Romanticism: Romantic Legacies in Twentieth-Century American Literature. He is a co-director of the Department's 'Romantic Dialogues and Legacies' research group. He is a co-organiser with Professor Michael O’Neill and Dr Sarah Wootton of a lecture series on 'The Persistence of Beauty: Victorians to Moderns' (Epiphany, 2012).

Postgraduate Supervision:

He has recently supervised successful doctoral theses on:

'Airy Children of Our Brain': Emotion, Science and the Legacy of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy in the Shelley Circle, 1812-1821.

'The Pleasure of the Senses: The Art of Sensation in Shelley's Poetics of Sensibility'.

He would be interested in proposals on all aspects of Romantic Literature (especially Romantic poetry; philosophy; subjectivity; grief).

He would also welcome proposals for postgraduate research on any aspect of the legacies of Romantic writing, culture, and thought in British or American literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Research Groups

Critical Theory
Romantic and Pre-Romantic Studies

Research Interests

American Literature
Romantic Poetry

Selected Publications

Books: authored

Sandy, Mark. (2005). Poetics of Self and Form in Keats and Shelley: Nietzschean Subjectivity and Genre. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Books: edited

Sandy, Mark (2012). Romantic Presences in the Twentieth Century. The Nineteenth Century Series. Ashgate.
O'Neill, Michael, Sandy, Mark & Wootton, Sarah (2012). Venice and the Cultural Imagination: 'This Strange Dream upon the Water'. Pickering & Chatto.
Radford, A. & Sandy, Mark (2008). Romantic Echoes in the Victorian Era. The Nineteenth Century Series. Aldershot: Ashgate.
O'Neill, M. & Sandy, M. (2006). Romanticism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies. Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies. London: Routledge.

Books: sections

Sandy, Mark (2012). '"Fiery Particle": Keats's Romantic Presences in the Writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald'. In Romantic Presences in the Twentieth Century. Sandy, Mark Ashgate. 149-162.
Sandy, Mark (2012). 'Reimagining Venice and Visions of Decay in Wordsworth, the Shelleys, and Thomas Mann'. In Venice and the Cultural Imagination: 'This Strange Dream upon the Water'. O'Neill, Michael, Sandy, Mark & Wootton, Sarah Pickering & Chatto. 27-42.
Sandy, Mark (2008). '"Echoes of that Voice:" Romantic Resonances in Victorian Poetic Birdsong'. In Romantic Echoes in the Victorian Era. Radford, Andrew, & Sandy, Mark Aldershot: Ashgate. 155-173.
Sandy, Mark. (2007). ''Ruinous Perfection': Reading Authors and Writing Readers in Romantic Fragments.'. In Romanticism and Form. Rawes, Alan. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 60-77.
Sandy, Mark. (2002). '"[W]hate’er these words cannot express": Transgressive Fictions in Shelley’s "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty", "To a Skylark", and "Ode to the West Wind".'. In Silence, Sublimity and Suppression in the Romantic Period. Price, Fiona. & Masson, Scott. New York: Edwin Mellen. Mellen Studies in Literature: Romantic Reassessment 157: 37-57.