1st Edition
Thomas Gray among the Disciplines
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface: The Organisation of Knowledge in Thomas Gray’s Manuscripts, 1716–1771
RUTH ABBOTT
Introduction: Literature, Scholarship, and the Disciplines in the Reception of Thomas Gray, 1771–2021
EPHRAIM LEVINSON
1 Thomas Gray, Menippean Satire, and the Antiquarian Method
CHARLOTTE ROBERTS
2 New Manuscript Material from Thomas Gray’s Grand Tour
STEPHEN CLARKE
3 Thomas Gray as Music Collector
NATHALIE DUPUIS-DÉSORMEAUX
4 Lucretius, Locke, and Latinitas in Thomas Gray’s De Principiis Cogitandi
ESTELLE HAAN
5 Thomas Gray’s Oriental Scholarship
KELSEY JACKSON WILLIAMS
6 Thomas Gray’s Geographic Imagination
JOSHUA SWIDZINSKI
7 Thomas Gray among the Medievalists
LOTTE REINBOLD
8 Queering Thomas Gray’s Celticism
RHYS KAMINSKI-JONES
9 Thomas Gray’s Understanding and Reviving of Historical Architecture
PETER N. LINDFIELD
10 Thomas Gray, Authorship, and A Catalogue of the Antiquities, Houses, Parks, Plantations, Scenes, and Situations in England and Wales
EPHRAIM LEVINSON
11 Thomas Gray and Meteorology
TESS SOMERVELL
12 Thomas Gray and the Art of Transcribing Historical Manuscripts
RUTH ABBOTT
13 Thomas Gray as Reader and Writer of the Natural World
SCOTT MANDELBROTE AND EDWIN ROSE
Biography
Ruth Abbott is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Ephraim Levinson is a Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews, UK.
‘At last a book that examines the full range of Thomas Gray’s extraordinary scholarly achievement, revealing, for the first time, his central place in the world of eighteenth-century learning.’
--Peter Sabor, Distinguished James McGill Professor, McGill University, Canada
‘This book brings together a range of cultural, intellectual and literary historians to explore the full range of Gray’s intellectual interests and their relation to his poetry. In a patient series of readings, the book allows a range of different relationships between Gray’s scholarship and his poetry to emerge. The closely integrated studies collected here offer the only modern consideration of Gray as a multidisciplinary researcher, thinker and writer. By bringing new intellectual historical contexts to bear and demonstrating their relevance to particular poems, these essays will reinvigorate study of Gray as a poet.’
--Tom Jones, Professor, University of St Andrews, UK
