Professor Emeritus
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Fields of Interest
Biography
B.A., Rice University, 1964
Ph.D., Rice University, 1967
Activities and Interests
My main research and teaching field is Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature, including the rise of the novel, theater history, periodical journalism, and print history. Recent teaching in other areas: contemporary British fiction, representations of class and criminality, early modern French and English epistolary novels, Jane Austen. I am part of the Textual Studies Program faculty. Current scholarship: a book entitled Lowlife: Representations of Social Inferiority in Britain, 1660-1830, and a volume on The Life of Jonathan Swift for the Blackwell “Critical Biography” series. I was appointed as the UW faculty Katz Distinguished Lecturer for 2014-15.
Research
Selected Research
- Thomas Lockwood. “Henry Fielding: The Comic Epic in Prose.” The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists. Ed. Mchael Bell. Cambridge University Press. 2012.
- Thomas Lockwood. Henry Fielding. Plays. Volume 3, 1734-1742, Editor. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 2011.
- Thomas Lockwood. Henry Fielding. Plays. Volume 2, 1731-1734, Editor. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 2007.
- Thomas Lockwood. “Shamela.” The Cambridge Companion to Henry Fielding. Ed. Claude Rawson. Cambridge University Press. 2007.
- Thomas Lockwood. Henry Fielding. Plays. Volume 1, 1728-1731, Editor. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 2004.