Brean Hammond

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Biography

For the past few years, I have been working on an edition of Lewis Theobald's Double Falsehood, a play that contains the 'DNA' of the lost Shakespeare and Fletcher play Cardenio, as I have argued. This work has taken me into many areas: textual editing, theatre history, authorship issues, Shakespeare's 'afterlives' - I have had to accumulate expertise both in eighteenth-century studies and in Renaissance drama. I have kept up my work on eighteenth-century studies and in particular on Jonathan Swift, producing in 2010 a controversial monograph arguing that Swift has to be understood as an Irish writer, at a point where 'Ireland' is a heavily contested identity, poised between nationhood and dominated regionality. The Centre for Cultural and Regional Studies housed in Nottingham's School of English has been a hospitable and valuable seminary for such work.

Expertise Summary

MA (Hons) (Edin) DPhil (Oxon) Areas of expertise - 17th and 18th century literature; the early English novel; literature and politics in 18th century; modern drama.

UG Modules Taught

I contribute to ug teaching through the Academic Communities module and through my contributions to the Studying Modern Literature, Understanding Modern Literature and Analysing Performance modules. I am currently teaching a suite of 4 personally-convened modules: the second year Crime, Conscience and Correction module; and in Year 3, Jonathan Swift, Sex and Society and Shakespeare and Jonson. Here are the course summaries:

Jonathan Swift

This course offers the student an opportunity to get to grips with a wide cross-section of the work of one of the world's most important writers. The module will span the complete oeuvre of Swift's writing, paying attention to his masterpieces of satirical fiction, A Tale of a Tub, Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal and to a wide range of his poetry. Swift's 'life-writing' in the Journal to Stella and his political writing in The Drapier's Letters will also be covered, enabling students to get to grips with the mind and art of this great extremist. The module investigates the work of a career clergyman, the Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, who is rumoured to have been secretly married with an illegitimate child to a different woman, who was for a while one of the most influential men in England, and who became a great Irish patriot while appearing to hate Ireland and the Irish.

Q32327 Crime, Conscience and Correction 1603-1700

Shakespeare, Donne, Milton…the course has three of the giants English literature, plus some of the greatest individual poems, for example Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress. There is material that you won't know nearly as well but will discover for yourself: Aphra Behn the first female professional writer, the bawdy Earl of Rochester, and writing for the stage after Shakespeare. The texts focus on the committing of crime or the addiction to vice: and on the way in which this is, or isn't, punished. The texts allow us to consider the development of the modern self, the nature of satire, issues surrounding writing that talks to God, realism, race and the sexual and pornographic poetry and theatre of Charles II's Court…it's a great course!

Q33338 Sex and Society 1700-1775

If you enjoyed the Crime, Conscience and Correction module, why not come back for Sex and Society? Sometimes referred to as the 'Augustan' period, this era is frequently thought of as an age dominated by 'order', 'reason' and 'enlightenment'. But there is just as much of the bizarre, the lunatic and the eccentric in this literary period as in any other. The module will explore that gap between rational ideals and irrational behaviour, with particular emphasis on sexuality and on relations between the genders. Occasionally, you're going to need a strong stomach, as scatological and pornographic material makes its appearance. Are you man or woman enough for this course? You know you are.

Q33601 Shakespeare and Jonson

You all think you know your Shakespeare. How many of you know the work of the playwright who was perhaps even more influential in his own time, Ben Jonson? Here's your chance to compare two of the great dramatists of the early seventeenth century. This module is structured around pairs of related texts by the two playwrights: we study first the Shakespeare play and in the following week the play by Ben Jonson that we think has most affinity with it. We explore the contrasting methods adopted by Shakespeare and Jonson in constructing their plays: stagecraft, dramatic form, character, the relationship between stage and audience, and the artistic 'missions' of both writers. The course is affectionately known as 'Bill and Ben' in the School office. Sign up.

PG Modules Taught:

MA English Literature

Areas of Research Supervision:

C17 and C18 literature; modern drama

Research Students:

My most recent PhD student was AHRC-funded : Nicholas Seager , now a member of the English Department at Keele University.

Research Summary

My current project is an edition, for Arden Shakespeare, of a lost Shakespeare/Fletcher collaboration called Cardenio. A play was presented in the early eighteenth-century by Lewis Theobald, who… read more

Selected Publications

• HAMMOND, B., 2012. 'The 'ethical turn' in literary criticism: Burns and Byron. In: SERGEANT, D. and STAFFORD, F., eds., Burns and other poets Edinburgh University Press. 168-181
• HAMMOND, B., 2011. London and poetry to 1750. In: MANLEY, L., ed., The Cambridge companion to the literature of London Cambridge University Press. 67-84
• HAMMOND, B., 2010. Jonathan Swift Irish Academic Press.
• HAMMOND, B., ed., 2010. Double falsehood or the distressed lovers Methuen Drama A & C Black Publishers Ltd.

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Current Research

My current project is an edition, for Arden Shakespeare, of a lost Shakespeare/Fletcher collaboration called Cardenio. A play was presented in the early eighteenth-century by Lewis Theobald, who would go on to be a famous editor of Shakespeare, as actually the lost play. Theobald said that he had further edited it, and he called it Double Falshood. I hope that this edition will appear in 2009.

I am moving on to a book-length study of Jonathan Swift that will take into account various new forms of knowledge afforded by recent projects such as the Cambridge Edition of the Complete Works. This is for Irish Academic Press in Dublin. I am writing several essays, to include a piece in the Cambridge Companion to London in English Literature; and a piece in a volume for CUP entitled Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century.

View my vodcast about 'Shakespeare's Lost Play' and also here.

Past Research

My major research contribution in recent years has been focused on the poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744). On a broader canvas was Professional Imaginative Writing in England 1670-1740 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997). This was an an extended meditation on Foucault's famous question 'what is an author?', arguing that our modern conception of proprietary authorship developed during the period that came under the book's investigation. More recently, I have completed an edition of five plays by the dramatist and architect Sir John Vanbrugh for OUP World's Classics; and a book in the Writers and Their Work series called Pope Among the Satirists. In collaboration with Shaun Regan at Queen's, Belfast, I have written Making the Novel for Palgrave, a book that considers a wide range of early novels in the light of an approach that marries social history and cultural criticism, considering and critiquing several recent approaches to this elusive subject.

Of many recent articles, I would single out a piece published in English Literary History in 2006 that presents some new archival work on Addison, Vanbrugh, the writing of early opera and the politics of the first decade of the century; and one in the online journal Literature Compass published by Blackwell, that suggests that the study of coincidence in literature might form an entirely new subfield of literary/cultural research.

Future Research

Amongst the articles that I hope to publish over the next 2-3 year period are:

(1) Contribution to book: 'Cervantean Fiction in the Eighteenth Century' to The Cervantean Heritage: Influence And Reception Of Cervantes In Britain ed. John A. Ardila.

(2) Contribution to book: 'Pope and Young' in Night in the Enlightenment ed. Kevin Cope (AMS Press).

(3) Contribution to book: "(Tor)mentoring the Servants: Swift's Directions" forthcoming in Tony Lee ed. Some Varieties of Mentoring Experience: Mentoring in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture.

(4) Contribution to book: an essay entitled 'Sweet Thames Run Softly: London and Poetry to 1789' will appear in the Cambridge Companion to London in English Literature ed. Lawrence Manley (CUP: 2008/9).

(5) Contribution to book: an essay entitled 'Shakespeare Forgeries and Discoveries' will appear in Peter Sabor and Fiona Ritchie eds. Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century (CUP, 2009).

• HAMMOND, BREAN, 2012. 'Shakespeare: Forgeries and Discoveries'. In: SABOR, PETER AND FIONA RITCHIE, ed., Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• HAMMOND, B., 2012. 'The 'ethical turn' in literary criticism: Burns and Byron. In: SERGEANT, D. and STAFFORD, F., eds., Burns and other poets Edinburgh University Press. 168-181
• BREAN HAMMOND, 2012. 'After Arden'. In: DAVID CARNEGIE AND GARY TAYLOR, ed., The Quest for Cardenio Oxford University Press. 62-78
• HAMMOND, B., 2011. London and poetry to 1750. In: MANLEY, L., ed., The Cambridge companion to the literature of London Cambridge University Press. 67-84
• HAMMOND, BREAN, 2011. 'Lord Byron'. In: PITTOCK, MURRAY, ed., The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 150-165
• HAMMOND, B., ed., 2010. Double falsehood or the distressed lovers Methuen Drama A & C Black Publishers Ltd.
• HAMMOND, BREAN AND NICHOLAS SEAGER, 2010. "I will have you spell right, let the world go how it will": Swift the (Tor)mentor. In: LEE, ANTHONY W., ed., Mentoring in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture Farnham: Ashgate. 63-84
• HAMMOND, B., 2010. Jonathan Swift Irish Academic Press.
• BREAN HAMMOND, 2010. Pope and Young on Night. In: The Enlightenment by Night: Essays on After Dark Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century AMS Press. 345-57
• HAMMOND, BREAN AND NICHOLAS SEAGER, 2009. ‘Jonathan Swift’s Historical Novel, The Memoirs of Capt. John Creichton (1731)’ Swift Studies. 73-87
• HAMMOND, BREAN, 2009. ‘The Cervantic Legacy in the Eighteenth-Century Novel’. In: ARDILA, J.A.G, ed., The Cervantean Heritage: Reception and Influence of Cervantes in Britain London: Legenda. 96-103 (In Press.)
• HAMMOND, B.S., 2007. Dean Swift: the Satirist and his Faith. In: GREG CLINGHAM, ed., Sustaining Literature: Essays on Literature, History and Culture, 1500-1800: Commemorating the Life and Work of Simon Varey Bucknell University Press. 127-36
• HAMMOND, B.S., 2007. Coincidence Studies: Developing a Field of Research Blackwell Online Publishing.
• HAMMOND, B.S., 2007. “Is everything history?”: Churchill, Barker and the Modern History Play Comparative Drama. 41(1), 1-23
• HAMMOND, B.S. and REGAN, S., 2006. Making the novel: fiction and society in Britain, 1660-1789 Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• HAMMOND, B.S., 2006. Joseph Addison's opera Rosamond: Britishness in the early eighteenth century ELH. 73(3), 601-629
• HAMMOND B.S., 2006. Verse Satire. In: CHRISTINE GERRARD, ed., A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry Blackwell. 369-86
• HAMMOND, B.S., 2005. Pope amongst the satirists, 1660-1750 Tavistock: Northcote House.
• HAMMOND, B.S., 2005. The Dunciad and the city: Pope and heterotopia Studies in the Literary Imagination. 38(1), 219-232
• HAMMOND, B.S., 2004. "The Print of a Man's Naked Foot": Do-It-Yourself Theodicy in Robinson Crusoe. In: FREIBURG, R. and GRUSS, S., eds., "But Vindicate the Ways of God to Man": Literature and Theodicy Tubingen : Stauffenburg. 131-40
• HAMMOND, B.S., ed., 2004. John Vanbrugh: The Relapse and Other Plays Oxford : Oxford University Press.
• HAMMOND, B.S., 2003. Hammond versus Ricks on Plagiarism. In: KEWES, P., ed., Plagiarism in Early Modern England Basingstoke : PalgraveMacmillan. 41-55
• HAMMOND, B.S., 2003. Swift's Reading. In: REAL, H.J. and STöVER-LEIDIG, H., eds., Reading Swift: Papers from the Fourth Munster Symposium on Jonathan Swift Munich : Wilhelm Fink. 133-146
• HAMMOND, B.S., 2003. Swift's reading. In: FOX, C., ed., Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. 53-67
• HAMMOND, B.S., 2001. The City in Eighteenth-Century Poetry. In: SITTER, J., ed., The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. 83-108
• HAMMOND, B.S., 2000. Literature and Party, 1675-1760. In: WOMERSLEY, D., ed., A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake Oxford : Blackwell. 38-56
• HAMMOND, B.S., 2000. "O Sophonisba! Sophonisba O!": Thomson the Tragedian. In: TERRY, R., ed., James Thomson: Essays for the Tercentenary Liverpool : Liverpool University Press. 15-33
• HAMMOND, B.S. and KEWES, P., 2000. 'A Satyre against Reason and Mankind' from Page to Stage. In: FISHER, N., ed., That Second Bottle: Essays on John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Manchester : Manchester University Press. 133-152
• HAMMOND, B.S., 2000. Hardy's Tess and Fortgibu's Plum-Pudding. In: GöBEL, W., KOHL, S. and ZAPF, H., eds., Modernisierung und Literatur Tubingen : Narr. 107-115
• HAMMOND, B.S., 2000. Is There a Whig Canon? The Case of Susanna Centlivre Women's Writing. VOL 7(PART 3), 373-390
• HAMMOND, B.S., 1998. Mid-Century English Quixotism and the Defence of the Novel Eighteenth-Century Fiction. VOL 10(NUMBER 3), 247-69
• HAMMOND, B.S., 1998. Swift, Pope and the Efficacy of Satire in Swift: the Enigmatic Dean. In: FREIBURG, R., LOFFLER, A. and ZACH, W., eds., Swift: the Enigmatic Dean Tubingen : Stauffenburg. 71-79
• HAMMOND, B.S., 1998. "Low and Ungentlemanlike Reflections": Swift and Pope. In: Reading Swift: Papers from the Third Munster Symposium on Jonathan Swift Munich : Wilhelm Fink. 311-20
• HAMMOND, B.S., 1997. Professional imaginative writing in England, 1670-1740 : hackney for bread / Brean S. Hammond Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1997.
• HAMMOND, B.S., ed., 1996. Pope Harlow, Essex, UK, Longman.
• HAMMOND, B.S., 1996. Pope Harlow, Essex, UK, Longman.
• HAMMOND, B.S., 1995. An Allusion to Horace, Jonson's Ghost, and the Second Poets'. In: Essays on Rochester Liverpool, Liverpool University Press. 166-86
• HAMMOND, B.S., 1995. Corinna's Dream Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. 36(2), 99-118
• HAMMOND, B.S., 1993. The Political Unconscious in Mansfield Park. In: Theory in Practice Buckingham, Open University Press. 56-90
• HAMMOND, B.S., 1993. "Our Toils obscure, and a' that": Robert Burns and the Burns Myth. In: Anglistentag 1992 Stuttgart Proceedings Vol. XIV 14. 9-19
• HAMMOND, B.S., 1993. Applying Swift. In: Reading Swift Wilhelm Fink, GmbH & Co. Verlags KG, München, Germany. 185-98
• HAMMOND, B.S., 1993. "Our Toils obscure, and a' that": Robert Burns and the Burns Myth. In: Anglistentag 1992 Stuttgart Proceedings Vol. XIV 14. 9-19
• HAMMOND, B. S., 1992. Politics and Cultural Politics: The Case of Henry Fielding Eighteenth-Century Life. VOL 16(NUMBER 1), 76
• HAMMOND, B.S., 1990. In: Pope: New Contexts Brighton, Harvester Press. 225-39
• HAMMOND, B.S., 1989. A Poet, and a Patron, and Ten Pound: John Gay and Patronage. In: John Gay and the Scriblerians Vision Paperbacks, London, UK. 23-43
• HAMMOND, B.S., 1988. Gulliver's travels / Brean Hammond Milton Keynes : Open University Press, 1988.
• HAMMOND, B.S. and MALONE, M., 1988. Pope and Churchill. In: Alexander Pope: Essays for the Tercentenary Aberdeen University Press, Aberdeen UK. 22-38
• HAMMOND, B.S., 1988. Scriblerian Self-Fashioning. In: Yearbook of English Studies 18. Modern Humanities Research Association, The, LOndon, UK. 109-24
• HAMMOND, B.S., 1987. The Intertext of an Adaptation: Bond's Lear and King Lear Etudes Anglaises. 40(3), 279-93
• HAMMOND, B.S., 1986. Pope Brighton, Harvester.
• HAMMOND, B.S., 1984. Pope and Bolingbroke : a study of friendship and influence / Brean S. Hammond Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1984.
• HAMMOND, B.S., 1984. The Performance History of a Pseudo-Shakespearean Play: Theobald's Double Falshood British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 49-60
• HAMMOND,B.S., 1980. Repentance: Solution to the Clash of Moralities in Moll English Studies. 329-37
• HAMMOND,B.S., 1980. "Old England's Genius": Pope's Epistle to Bolingbroke British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 3(2), 107-26
• HAMMOND, B.S., 1980. The Pilgrim's Progress:Satire and Social Comment. In: The Pilgrim's Progress: Critical and Historical Views Liverpool University Press, Liverpool. 118-31
• HAMMOND,B.S., 1979. Beckett and Pinter: towards a Grammar of the Absurd Journal of Beckett Studies. 4, 35-42