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Dr Robert Carver, BA (Hons) (ANU); D. Phil. (Oxon.)
Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Studies
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 42567
Fax: +44 (0) 191 33 42501
Room number: Stables 1, Hallgarth House
Member of the Centre for 17th-Century Studies
Member of the Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Contact Dr Robert Carver (email at r.h.f.carver@durham.ac.uk)
Research Groups
Department of English Studies
Research Interests
- Apuleius and the Ancient Novel
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Neo-Latin Literature
- Renaissance Humanism
- Renaissance literature
- Sir Philip Sidney
- The influence of the Classics in English literature
Selected Publications
Books: authored
- Carver, Robert H.F. (2007). The Protean Ass: The 'Metamorphoses' of Apuleius from Antiquity to the Renaissance'. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Edited works: contributions
- Carver, R. (2002). Contributed 59 new entries to the Renaissance section (1474-1599). In The Oxford Chronology of English Literature Volume 1. Cox, Michael. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1: 3-62.
- Carver, R. (2001). 'Quis ille? The Role of the Prologue in Apuleius’ Nachleben.'. In A Companion to the Prologue of Apuleius’ ‘Metamorphoses’. Kahane, Ahuvia. & Laird, Andrew. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 163-174.
Essays in edited volumes
- Carver, R. (1999). 'The Rediscovery of the Latin Novels'. In Latin Fiction: The Latin Novel in Context. Hofmann, Heinz. London: Routledge. 253-268.
Journal papers: academic
- Carver, R. (2001). ‘“True Histories” and “Old Wives’ Tales” Renaissance Humanism and the “Rise of the Novel.”’. Ancient Narrative. 1: 322-349.
- Carver, R. (2001). ''True Histories' and 'Old Wives Tales': Renaissance Humanism and the 'Rise of the Novel'.'. Ancient Narrative. 1: 322-349.
- Carver, R. (1998). 'Transformed in Show': The Rhetoric of Transvestism in Sidney's Arcadia. English Literary Renaissance 28: 323-352.
- Carver, R. (1998). A New Source for Sidney's Arcadia: Pierio Valeriano's Leucippus (Text, Translation, and Commentary). English Literary Renaissance 28: 353-371.
- Carver R (1997). ''Sugared Invention' or 'Mongrel Tragi-comedy': Sir Philip Sidney and the Ancient Novel', in Groningen Colloquia on the Novel, vol. 8, ed. H. Hofmann and M. Zimmerman. Groningen Colloquia on the Novel 197-226.