Contact Details

Dr. Adeline Johns-Putra
	Deputy Head of SALL
	Department(s): English
	Room: - (Cornwall Campus)
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Research Interests

• Literature of the Romantic age, particularly women poets;
• domestic ideology;
• genre theory;
• epic;
• literature and place

Lecturer (University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus)

Adeline's research so far has dealt with two fields of inquiry: Romantic women writers and epic literature. Her first book, Heroes and Housewives: Women's Epic Poetry and Domestic Ideology in the Romantic Age (Peter Lang, 2001), examined epics by Romantic-era women writers, paying specific attention to the ways in which these created an alternative, feminised and domesticated epic heroism. She has also published and presented papers on Anna Seward and Eleanor Anne Porden, and contributed essays to the Encyclopaedia of the Romantic Era (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004). Her second book, The History of the Epic (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006), is a study of epics from Homer to Hollywood. Drawing on contemporary genre theory, it examines individual epic works while exploring the dynamics of genre formation.

As a Romanticist, Adeline is also interested in literature and landscape. Her current research is in the relationship between literature and place. With Professor Catherine Brace, she is co-investigator on the ‘Understanding Landscape' project, an AHRC-funded interdisciplinary investigation into the relationship between landscape and creative writing. This project brings together scholars from various disciplines with creative writers in Cornwall in a series of workshops and symposia.

Adeline would be interested in supervising dissertations dealing with epic, Romantic women's writing, and literature and place (particularly interdisciplinary approaches).

Publications

Most Representative Publications

• The History of the Epic. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006
• Heroes and Housewives: Women's Epic Poetry and Domestic Ideology in the Romantic Age (1770-1835). Bern: Peter Lang, 2001
• "Gendering Telemachus: Anna Seward and the Epic Rewriting of Fénelon's Télémaque". Approaches to the Anglo and American Female Epic, 1621-1982. Ed. Bernard Schweizer. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 85-97.
• "Satirising the Courtly Woman and Defending the Domestic Woman: Mock Epics and Women Poets in the Romantic Age". Romanticism on the Net 15 (August 1999).
• "Christ as Woman's Seed: Romantic Women Poets Rewriting the Bible". Prism(s): Essays in Romanticism 6 (1999): 59-81.

Teaching

Adeline's research contributes to the MA in English (Literature, Place and Identity) on the Cornwall Campus, and she has also taught on the MA in English (Criticism and Theory) in Streatham. She teaches or has taught the following undergraduate modules: Modern Epic, Reason and Unreason: Literature in the Age of Enlightenment, Culture and Criticism, Past and Present.