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James K. Chandler is George M. Pullman Professor in the
Department of English Language & Literature, and in the
Committee on the History of Culture at the University of
Chicago, from which he earned his Ph.D. in 1978. Chandler is
interested in subjects such as the Romantic Movement in
England, 18th- and 19th-century literature, the historical novel,
relations between film and literature, and history and criticism.
He is author of England in 1819: the Politics of Literary
Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism (University of
Chicago Press, 1998) and Wordsworth's Second Nature: a
Study of the Poetry and Politics (University of Chicago Press,
1984). He is presently at work on The New Cambridge
History of English Romantic Literature, projected for
publication with Cambridge University Press in 2002. Chandler
is editor, with Arnold Davidson and Harry Harootunian, of
Questions of Evidence, (University of Chicago Press, 1994).
He is also general editor (with Marilyn Butler) of Cambridge
Studies in Romanticism and (with David Bromwich and Lionel
Gossman) of Literature in History, a book series for Princeton
University Press, begun in 1991. Works in progress include
Romantic Metropolis: Cultural Productions of the City, 1780-1850,
co-edited with Kevin Gilmartin and A Sympathetic Eye: Capra,
Commerce, and the History of Sentiment.
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