Stephen Prickett
| Stephen Prickett | |
|---|---|
| Born | 01 01 1939 Freetown, Sierra Leone |
| 🏳️ Nationality | British |
| 💼 Occupation | Academic, Author |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Miranda Mabbutt (m.1967 div 1982), Maria Alvarez (m 1982 div 1998), Patricia Erskine-Hill (m. 2001) |
Alexander Thomas Stephen Prickett (b. 1939 Freetown, Sierra Leone), publishes as Stephen Prickett. He is currently Honorary Professor of English at the University of Kent at Canterbury and Regius Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow.
Education
He was educated at Kent College, Canterbury (1948-58), Trinity Hall, Cambridge (BA 1961), University College (Dip Ed 1962), returning to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, for his PhD (1964-67) (title: Coleridge and Wordsworth, the Poetry of Growth). [1]
Career
After his BA he travelled to Eastern Nigeria to teach English at Methodist College, Uzuakoli (1962-64). He returned to the UK to complete his PhD. His first University appointment was at the University of Sussex (1967-82) (Assistant Lecturer - Reader). This was followed by a Chair of English at the Australian National University in Canberra (1983-89). Prickett returned to Britain to take up the Regius Chair at Glasgow University (1990-2000). He spent one year teaching at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (2001-2002), and was then Margaret Root Brown Professor at Baylor University, Texas (2003-2008). At Baylor he ran the Armstrong Browning Library, specialising in Victorian literature and artifacts, in addition to supervising PhD students. On his return to Britain he was appointed Honorary Professor of English at the University of Kent and in 2019 he spent several months at the University of Urbino in Italy as Visiting Professor.
Research and Publications
His academic research and publications have mostly been concerned with the connections between literature, history, art and theology, and he has published eleven monographs with a further one due to appear in 2021; nine edited volumes, and over a hundred articles on Romanticism, Victorian Studies and related topics. He pioneered the first university course in Children’s (and Fantasy) Literature at Smith College in 1969/70, and this has remained an innovative and popular choice for students throughout his career. He also introduced the concept of theology as literature – a new idea for many, but now widely accepted. Non-academic books include the detective story Do It Yourself Doom, written while he was a student (1962), and the much later Naming the Birds, partly based on the life of William Blake (2015). He also edited a collection of essays, Education! Education! Education! Managerial Ethics and the Law of Unintended Consequences, published by Imprint Academic in July 2002.
He was General Editor of the Macmillan “Romanticism in Perspective Series”, editorial consultant to the Oxford Bible Commentary Series and also to Blackwell’s Bible Commentaries. He was general editor of a fourteen-language, parallel text, Reader in European Romanticism, published by Continuum Press in 2010 and also editor of The Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts, Edinburgh University Press 2014. He is a member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilization. Other activities include editing two series of monographs and reviewing regularly for a wide variety of journals..[2]
In 2016 he joined a cross-faith group at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem which resulted in Interpreting Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. In 2017 he was a judge for the ACE/Mercers Art Prize.
He has taught or held guest lectureships in 23 countries:.
Theatre Production
Prickett has produced Shakespeare plays in Cambridge, Oxford, Nigeria, Australia, Waco, Texas, and, most recently, with the Charing Guild of Players in Kent. While in Australia he was a director of the Canberra Theatre Company, and staged A Winter’s Tale, All’s Well that Ends Well[3] and Much Ado About Nothing[4]
Personal Life
Prickett's first wife was Miranda Mabbutt (m.1967 div 1982), with whom he had two children. He subsequently married the Argentinian journalist Maria Alvarez (m 1982 div 1998)[1]; his third wife is art and history lecturer Patricia Erskine-Hill (m. 2001).
Bibliography
Books
- Do It Yourself Doom (Gollancz, 1962)[5] Detective story
- Coleridge and Wordsworth: The Poetry of Growth (Cambridge University Press, 1970).
- Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Lyrical Ballads (Studies in English Literature Series, Edward Arnold 1975)
- Romanticism and Religion: The Tradition of Coleridge and Wordsworth in the Victorian Church (Cambridge University Press, 1976).
- Victorian Fantasy (Harvester Press/Indiana University Press, 1979).
- Words and the Word: Language, Poetics and Biblical Interpretation (Cambridge University Press, 1986; Japanese translation 1997)[6]
- England and the French Revolution Macmillan (Context and Commentary Series, 1988).
- (with Robert Barnes) The Bible, Landmarks of World Literature Series (Cambridge University Press, 1991; Japanese translation 1993).
- Origins of Narrative: The Romantic Appropriation of the Bible (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
- Narrative, Religion & Science: Fundamentalism versus Irony, 1700-1999 (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
- Modernity and the Reinvention of Tradition: Backing into the Future (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
- Naming the Birds (Amazon, 2015)
- Secret Selves, a History of Our Inner Space (planned 2021, Bloomsbury Press N.Y.)
- Cambridge New Architecture, 3rd ed, by Philip Booth & Nicholas Taylor, ed Stephen Prickett, International Textbook Corporation, 1970.
- The Romantics, Contexts of English Literature Series, ed. Stephen Prickett, Methuen /Holmes & Meier 1981.
- Proceedings of the Australasian Victorian Studies Association, 1983, eds. Pat Dobrez and Stephen Prickett, Australian National University 1984.
- Reading the Text: Biblical Interpretation and Literary Theory ed. Stephen Prickett, Oxford, Basil Blackwell 1991.
- The Bible, ed. Robert Carroll and Stephen Prickett, World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1997.
- A Reader in Literature and Theology, Blackwell, Oxford, 1999 (eds. Stephen Prickett and David Jasper)
- Education! Education! Education! Managerial Ethics and the Law of Unintended Consequences, Imprint Academic, 2002. (eds Stephen Prickett and Patricia Erskine-Hill)
- General Editor: European Romanticism: A Reader, Continuum, 2010.
- General Editor: The Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts, Edinburgh University Press: 2014.
Awards and Honours
- 1979-80 Fulbright Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota, U.S.A.
- Winner of the U.S. Conference on Christianity and Literature Book Award, M.L.A., December 1987. Words and the Word, Language, Poetics and Biblical Interpretation
- Winner of Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize for best book on Romanticism 2010: European Romanticism: A Reader.[7]
- Winner of Mythopoeic Society’s annual award, 1992: “Victorian Fantasists; Their Achievements; Their Influence”, ed. J.S. Ryan.
- Honorary Doctorate, Université d’Artois, France, 2002
- Honorary Doctorate, University of Bucharest, Romania, 2015
Boards and Fellowships
- 1991-2000 President of the European Society for the Study of Literature and Theology
- Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
- Fellow of the English Association
- Chairman of the U.K. Higher Education Foundation
- President of the George MacDonald Society
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Who's Who. 2020. Search this book on
- ↑ Wordsworths Poems of Travel 1819-42. New York: Saint Martins Inc. 10 September 1999. ISBN 0-312-22113-4. Search this book on
- ↑ "Review". Canberra Times. 14 October 1983. Unknown parameter
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|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Stephen, Prickett (1962). Do It Yourself Doom. Gollancz. p. 1. Search this book on
- ↑ Stephen, Prickett (1986). Words and the Word. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-32248-0. Search this book on
- ↑ "Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize for Best Book". Bloomsbury Literary Studies Blog. 26 February 2011. Unknown parameter
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