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Stony Brook University
Humanities Bldg.
Stony Brook, NY
11794-5350
Phone: 631.632.7400
Peter Manning

Professor Manning received his AB from Harvard College and his MA and Ph.D. from Yale University. He continues to teach and write in the area of the British Romantics, with particular interest in the complex relationships between literary works and the contexts in which they emerged. Current publication projects include the fourth edition of The Romantics and Their Contemporaries, and a new edition of Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, both for Longman. He continues to work on his culturally-situated study of the late works of William Wordsworth.
Reading Romantics Byron and His Fictions

Peter J. Manning

Professor. Ph.D. Yale University. British Romantic Literature, Literary Theory, Textual Criticism/History of the Book

2086 Humanities
(631) 632-1095
pmanning@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Courses:

Fall 2008
  • Literary Analysis & Argumentation (EGL 204)
  • British Romanticism (EGL 606)

Awards:

  • Distinguished Scholar Award, Keats-Shelley Association, 1996.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1993-1994.
  • Albert S. Raubenheimer Distinguished Faculty Award, University of Southern California, 1989.
  • Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Southern California, 1985.
  • President, Wordsworth-Coleridge Association, 1984.
  • Grant-in-aid, American Council of Learned Societies, 1983.
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1981-1982.
  • Research / Travel Grant from the American Philosophical Society, 1980.
  • Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of California, Berkeley, 1974-1975.

Selected Publications:

Books
  • Reading Romantics.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1990.  Pp. 326.   Rpt. 2001.
  • Byron and His Fictions.  Detroit:  Wayne State University Press, 1978.  Pp. 296. Republished by Books on Demand, 1996.
       
Editions (all co-edited with Susan J. Wolfson)
  • Selected Poems of Thomas Hood, Winthrop Mackworth Praed and Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2000. xxxi + 388 pp. In North America: Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2001. TLS Notable Book of The Year.
  • Longman Anthology of British Literature. Romantics section. Third edition, revised and enlarged, 2006.
  • Lord Byron: Selected Poems.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1996.  xxxiii +  830 pp. New Edition, London: Penguin, 2005.
   
Essays in Books
  • “The Other Scene of Travel: Wordsworth's ‘Musings Near Aquapendente,’” The Wordsworthian Enlightenment, ed. Helen Regueiro Elam and Frances Ferguson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
  • “Manufacturing the Romantic Image: Hazlitt and Coleridge Lecturing,” Romantic Metropolis, ed. James Chandler and Kevin Gilmartin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.