Dr James Peacock

Title: Senior Lecturer
Phone: (+44) 01782 733140
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Location: CBB0.057
Role: Co-ordinator, MRes Humanities and Schools and Colleges Liaison Champion
Programme Director for American Studies, English and English and American Literatures
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I completed a Master's in English Literature: Nation, Writing Culture at the University of Edinburgh, where I also completed my thesis on Paul Auster in July 2006. My principal areas of research are contemporary American fiction (particularly Paul Auster and Jonathan Lethem), and the relationship between Quakerism and American literature, 1780-1900. I also have interests in detective fiction, transatlantic literary relations and Edward Hopper

Selected Publications

  • Lustig T and Peacock J. Lustig T and Peacock J (Eds.). 2013. Diseases and Disorders in Contemporary Fiction: The Syndrome Syndrome. Routledge.
  • Lustig T and Peacock J. Lustig T and Peacock J (Eds.). 2013. Diseases and Disorders in Contemporary Fiction: The Syndrome Syndrome. Routledge.
  • Peacock J. 2012. Jonathan Lethem. Manchester Univ Pr.
  • Peacock JH. 2011. Why All the Marsupials? An Interview with Jonathan Lethem. link>
  • Peacock JH. 2011. Sunset Park, by Paul Auster. Warwick Review, vol. 5(1), 96-103.

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Books

  • Lustig T and Peacock J. Lustig T and Peacock J (Eds.). 2013. Diseases and Disorders in Contemporary Fiction: The Syndrome Syndrome. Routledge.
  • Lustig T and Peacock J. Lustig T and Peacock J (Eds.). 2013. Diseases and Disorders in Contemporary Fiction: The Syndrome Syndrome. Routledge.
  • Peacock J. 2012. Jonathan Lethem. Manchester Univ Pr.
  • PEACOCK JH. Bruccoli M (Ed.). 2010. Understanding Paul Auster. Columbia, South Carolina. link>

Journal Articles

  • Peacock JH. 2011. Sunset Park, by Paul Auster. Warwick Review, vol. 5(1), 96-103.
  • Peacock J. 2011. The Father in the Ice: Paul Auster, Character, and Literary Ancestry. Critique (Washington): studies in contemporary fiction, vol. 52(3), 362-376. link> doi>
  • Peacock JH. 2010. A Tale of Too Many Cities: The Clash’s ‘Ghetto Defendant’ and Transnational Disruptions. Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, vol. 14(1), 19-41. full text>
  • Peacock J. 2009. Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America. JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES, vol. 43(3), 561-562. link> doi>
  • Peacock J. 2009. Jonathan Lethem's Genre Evolutions. Journal of American Studies, vol. 43(3), 425-440. doi> full text>
  • Peacock J. 2009. Unearthing Paul Auster's Poetry. ORBIS LITTERARUM, vol. 64(5), 413-437. link>
  • PEACOCK JH. 2008. “What they seek for is in themselves: Quaker Language and Thought in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century American literature.". Quaker Studies, vol. 12(2), 196-215. link> full text>
  • PEACOCK JH. 2008. "New York and yet not New York": Reading the Region in Contemporary Brooklyn Fictions. European Journal of American Studies, vol. 2008(2), N/A. link> full text>
  • Peacock JH. 2007. The Multiple Worlds of Pynchon's Mason and Dixon. Journal of American Studies, vol. 41(1), 211.
  • PEACOCK JH. 2006. 'Carrying the burden of representation: Paul Auster's "The Book of Illusions"'. Journal of American Studies, vol. 40(1), 53-69. doi>
  • Peacock J. 2006. Signs of Grace: Paul Auster's "Oracle Night". English, vol. 55(211), 65-78. doi>
  • Peacock J. 2006. The Light and the Fogg: Edward Hopper and Paul Auster. Janus Head, vol. 9(1).
  • PEACOCK JH. 2005. 'Who was John Bartram? Literary and epistolary depictions of the Quaker'. Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations , vol. 9(1), 29-44. full text>
  • Peacock JH. Divided Loyalties, Changing Landscapes: William McIlvanney's Laidlaw Novels. English, vol. 62(236), 69-86.
  • Peacock JH. The Clash and Allen Ginsberg. Symbiosis: a journal of anglo-american literary relations, vol. 14(1), 19-42.

Chapters

  • Peacock JH. 2011. Faking it or Making it? Forgery, Real Lives and the True Fake in The Brooklyn Follies. In The Invention of Illusions: International Perspectives on Paul Auster. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press.

Other

  • Peacock JH. 2011. Why All the Marsupials? An Interview with Jonathan Lethem. link>
  • Peqacock J. 2009. Negotiations: An Interview with Jonathan Lathem.

Modules I teach include New York, New York: An Introduction to American Culture; Burning Crosses: Religion and American Culture, The Detective and the American City and Gender and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.” I’ve supervised final year dissertations on Edgar Allan Poe, Margaret Atwood, Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Paul Auster, among others.  I’m happy to discuss dissertation proposals on all aspects of nineteenth-century American literature, contemporary American fiction, detective fiction, Edward Hopper, and New York in fiction.