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Australian-born academic of English literature
Peter Conrad (born 1948) is an Australian-born academic specialising in
English literature, who taught at
Christ Church at the
University of Oxford. He is a fellow of the
Royal Society of Literature.
Conrad was born in
Hobart, Tasmania, and attended
Hobart High School. After graduating from the
University of Tasmania in 1968, Conrad went to Oxford University, UK, on a
Rhodes Scholarship,
[1] studying at
New College. He became a
fellow of
All Souls College from 1970 to 1973 before taking up his current post at Christ Church. There he taught English from 1973, and has been a visiting professor at
Princeton University and at
Williams College, and a guest lecturer throughout the United States.
[2] By 2018 he had retired.
[3]
His
criticism includes a major history of English literature, The Everyman History of English Literature, a
cultural history of the twentieth century, two autobiographical works and a novel. He has written books of criticism on
Orson Welles and
Alfred Hitchcock and has been a prolific writer of features and reviews for many magazines and newspapers including
The New York Times,
The New Yorker,
The Observer, the
New Statesman, and
The Monthly.[
citation needed]
Reviewing
J. R. R. Tolkien's
The Silmarillion in the
New Statesman, Conrad stated that "Tolkien can't actually write".
[4]
A review by
Richard Poirier of Conrad's 1980 book, Imagining America, in the
London Review of Books found it so slipshod, with such fundamental and pointedly homophobic misunderstandings of
Oscar Wilde,
Rupert Brooke and
W. H. Auden, that the reviewer wondered how it made it into print.
[5]
Bibliography
- The Victorian Treasure-House. London: Collins. 1973.
ISBN
0-00-211883-1.
- Romantic Opera and Literary Form, Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1978,
ISBN
0-520-03258-6
- Shandyism: The Character of Romantic Irony, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1978,
ISBN
0-064-91267-1
- Imagining America, New York: Oxford University Press, 1980,
ISBN
0-195-02651-9
- Television: The Medium and its Manners, Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982,
ISBN
0-710-09041-2
- The Art of the City: Views and Versions of New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 1984,
ISBN
0-195-03408-2
- The Everyman History of English Literature, London: J. M. Dent, 1985,
ISBN
0-460-04560-1
- A Song of Love and Death: The Meaning of Opera, New York: Poseidon Press, 1987,
ISBN
0-671-64353-3
-
Behind the Mountain: Return to Tasmania, London: Chatto & Windus, 1988,
ISBN
0-701-13253-1
- Where I Fell to Earth: A Life in Four Cities, New York: Poseidon Press, 1990,
ISBN
0-671-68233-4
- Underworld, Simon & Schuster, 1992,
ISBN
0-671-75884-5
- Modern Times, Modern Places: Life and Art in the Twentieth Century, Thames & Hudson, 1999,
ISBN
978-0-500-28151-2
- "New New World". Granta. 70: 11–37. Summer 2000.
- The Hitchock Murders, Faber & Faber, 2002,
ISBN
0-571-21060-0
- At Home in Australia, Thames & Hudson, 2003,
ISBN
0-500-51141-1
[6]
- Orson Welles: The Stories of His Life, Faber & Faber, 2004,
ISBN
0-571-20993-9
- Creation: Artists, Gods & Origins, Thames & Hudson, 2007,
ISBN
0-500-51356-2
- How the World Was Won: The Americanization of Everywhere. Thames & Hudson. 2014.
ISBN
9780500252086.
- Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries, Thames & Hudson, 2014,
ISBN
0-500-29085-7
- Mythomania: Tales of Our Times, Thames & Hudson, 2016,
ISBN
0500292582
- Shakespeare: The Theatre of Our World, Head of Zeus, 2018,
ISBN
1788540174
- The Mysteries of Cinema: Movies and Imagination, Thames & Hudson, 2021,
ISBN
0500022992
References
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^
"Peter Conrad's "Tales of Two Hemispheres" – 2004 Boyer Lectures broadcast in November on Radio National". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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^
Biography
Archived 2011-07-23 at the
Wayback Machine from Christ Church, Oxford
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^
Christ Church website, "Teaching and Research Staff", accessed 8 November 2018
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^ Conrad, Peter (23 September 1977), "The Babbit",
New Statesman, vol. 94, p. 408
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^
"Peter Conrad's Flight from Precision" by
Richard Poirier,
London Review of Books, vol. 2, no. 14, 17 July 1980
-
^ Fitzgerald, Michael (13 October 2003).
"The View From Abroad". Time. Archived from
the original on 30 January 2012.
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