Essaka Joshua


Contact Information

Mailing Address:
Department of Philosophy
University of Notre Dame
100 Malloy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556

Phone: (574) 631-7120
E-Mail: ejoshua@nd.edu

Office: 327 Malloy Hall
Office Hours: 2:00-3:00 Tuesday and Thursday, and by appointment

 

Education:

BA(Hons), MA University of Oxford, Ph.D University of Birmingham

Areas of Interest:

Literary and cultural perceptions of disability in the British Romantic period (1780-1850), political radicalism of the 1790s, interactions between folklore and British literature of the Romantic period.

Selected Bibliography

Books:

  • The Romantics and the May Day Tradition, The Nineteenth Century Series (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007)
  • Pygmalion and Galatea: The History of a Narrative in English Literature, The Nineteenth Century Series (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001)

Recent Articles:

  • ‘Wordsworth Amongst the Aristotelians’, Journal of the History of Ideas, 67: 3 (2006), 513-524
  • ‘Charlotte Smith's Desmond: Romance and the Man of Principle in the Domestic and Public Spheres’, The Eighteenth Century Novel, 5 (2006), 277-319
  • ‘Thomas Lovell Beddoes and William John Hamilton’, Journal of the Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society, 11 (2006), 18-25
  • ‘“Almost my hope of heaven”: Idolatry and Messianic Symbolism in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre’, Philological Quarterly, 81 (2002), 81-107
  • ‘“Marking the Dates with Accuracy”: The Time Problem in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’, Gothic Studies, 3 (2001), 279-308
  • Political Women and American Democracy Conference :: May 25-27