Department Affiliate
Editor, Modern Language Quarterly
Professor of Comparative Literature
Biography
B.A., Harvard University, 1965
M.Phil., Yale University, 1969
Ph.D., Yale University, 1972
Activities and Interests
My books have concerned romanticism and 18th-century literature in Great Britain and Europe, most recently a comparative study of the gothic novel. Focal interests are the relationship of form to ideology and the history of forms and ideas. I work on all major literary genres and also on the German philosophical tradition. A growing area of study is musical form in comparison with literary expression. I also have written essays on major theorists and general essays about criticism and literary history. I intend to return to work on a book mostly about 19th-century European fiction to be called "Fiction and Form."
Research
Selected Research
- Marshall Brown. “The Tooth That Nibbles at the Soul”: Essays on Poetry and Music. University of Washington Press. 2010.
- Marshall Brown. The Gothic Text. Standord University Press. 2004.
- Marshall Brown. Turning Points: Essays in the History of Cultural Expressions. Stanford University Press. 1997.
- Marshall Brown. Preromanticism. Stanford University Press. 1993.
- Marshall Brown. The Shape of German Romanticism. Cornell University Press. 1979.
Research Advised
- Gutierrez, Brian. A Dark Ecology of Performance : Mapping the Field of Romantic Literary Celebrity through Gothic Drama. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- Ottinger, Aaron. The Role of Geometry in Wordsworth's "Science of Feelings." 2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- Morgan, Paige. Haggling With the Muses: Negotiating Value in 18th Century English Poetry. 2014. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- McCollum, Jennifer. Animation and Reanimation in the Victorian Gothic. 2012. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.