Luke Maxted

Thesis Title: Negative Constructions in the Long Nineteenth Century

Supervisor: Prof. Seamus Perry

Thesis: My work compares how Romantic and pre-Romantic English writers used negative constructions. I look at Milton and Dryden, Wordsworth and Hardy, reactionary poetics in the twentieth century and the 'lyric paragraph'.

Publications:  

1. Despair Disassociated, The Nabokovian, 2015
2. Life, Literature, and the Academy in Philip Roth and Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth Studies, 2018. Winner of the Siegel McDaniel Award
3. Thomas Hardy's ‘In St. Paul's A While Ago’: A Source for Philip Larkin's ‘At Grass’, Notes and Queries, 2022
4. Despite Divergence: Thomas Hardy’s 'The Temporary the All’, The Thomas Hardy Journal, 2022
5. Thomas Hardy’s Markings in his Copy of Henry Vaughan’s ‘Sacred Poems and Pious Ejaculations’, and their Significance to ‘The Darkling Thrush’, Notes and Queries, 2022
6. From ‘Algy’ to ‘Algeciras’: A Chiastic Pattern in James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’, Notes and Queries, 2025
7. Gentlemen Prefer Bronze: Sculpture and Self-Description in Hemingway’s ‘A Farewell to Arms’, The Explicator, 2026