peter, conrad, academic, peter, conrad, born, 1948, australian, born, academic, specialising, english, literature, taught, christ, church, university, oxford, fellow, royal, society, literature, conrad, born, hobart, tasmania, attended, hobart, high, school, a. Peter Conrad born 1948 is an Australian born academic specialising in English literature who taught at Christ Church at the University of Oxford He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature Conrad was born in Hobart Tasmania and attended Hobart High School After graduating from the University of Tasmania in 1968 Conrad went to Oxford University UK on a Rhodes Scholarship 1 studying at New College He became a fellow of All Souls College from 1970 to 1973 before taking up his current post at Christ Church There he taught English from 1973 and has been a visiting professor at Princeton University and at Williams College and a guest lecturer throughout the United States 2 By 2018 he had retired 3 His criticism includes a major history of English literature The Everyman History of English Literature a cultural history of the twentieth century two autobiographical works and a novel He has written books of criticism on Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock and has been a prolific writer of features and reviews for many magazines and newspapers including The New York Times The New Yorker The Observer the New Statesman and The Monthly citation needed Reviewing J R R Tolkien s The Silmarillion in the New Statesman Conrad stated that Tolkien can t actually write 4 A review by Richard Poirier of Conrad s 1980 book Imagining America in the London Review of Books found it so slipshod with such fundamental and pointedly homophobic misunderstandings of Oscar Wilde Rupert Brooke and W H Auden that the reviewer wondered how it made it into print 5 Bibliography EditThis list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items August 2020 The Victorian Treasure House London Collins 1973 ISBN 0 00 211883 1 Romantic Opera and Literary Form Berkeley amp Los Angeles University of California Press 1978 ISBN 0 520 03258 6 Shandyism The Character of Romantic Irony Oxford Basil Blackwell 1978 ISBN 0 064 91267 1 Imagining America New York Oxford University Press 1980 ISBN 0 195 02651 9 Television The Medium and its Manners Boston Routledge amp Kegan Paul 1982 ISBN 0 710 09041 2 The Art of the City Views and Versions of New York New York Oxford University Press 1984 ISBN 0 195 03408 2 The Everyman History of English Literature London J M Dent 1985 ISBN 0 460 04560 1 A Song of Love and Death The Meaning of Opera New York Poseidon Press 1987 ISBN 0 671 64353 3 Behind the Mountain Return to Tasmania London Chatto amp Windus 1988 ISBN 0 701 13253 1 Where I Fell to Earth A Life in Four Cities New York Poseidon Press 1990 ISBN 0 671 68233 4 Underworld Simon amp Schuster 1992 ISBN 0 671 75884 5 Modern Times Modern Places Life and Art in the Twentieth Century Thames amp Hudson 1999 ISBN 978 0 500 28151 2 New New World Granta 70 11 37 Summer 2000 The Hitchock Murders Faber amp Faber 2002 ISBN 0 571 21060 0 At Home in Australia Thames amp Hudson 2003 ISBN 0 500 51141 1 6 Orson Welles The Stories of His Life Faber amp Faber 2004 ISBN 0 571 20993 9 Creation Artists Gods amp Origins Thames amp Hudson 2007 ISBN 0 500 51356 2 How the World Was Won The Americanization of Everywhere Thames amp Hudson 2014 ISBN 9780500252086 Verdi and or Wagner Two Men Two Worlds Two Centuries Thames amp Hudson 2014 ISBN 0 500 29085 7 Mythomania Tales of Our Times Thames amp Hudson 2016 ISBN 0500292582 Shakespeare The Theatre of Our World Head of Zeus 2018 ISBN 1788540174 The Mysteries of Cinema Movies and Imagination Thames amp Hudson 2021 ISBN 0500022992References Edit Peter Conrad s Tales of Two Hemispheres 2004 Boyer Lectures broadcast in November on Radio National Australian Broadcasting Corporation Biography Archived 2011 07 23 at the Wayback Machine from Christ Church Oxford Christ Church website Teaching and Research Staff accessed 8 November 2018 Conrad Peter 23 September 1977 The Babbit New Statesman vol 94 p 408 Peter Conrad s Flight from Precision by Richard Poirier London Review of Books vol 2 no 14 17 July 1980 Fitzgerald Michael 13 October 2003 The View From Abroad Time Archived from the original on 30 January 2012 External links EditFaber amp Faber s biography Newsreel History by Terry Eagleton Review of Modern Times Modern Places Tales of Two Hemispheres Peter Conrad Boyer Lectures 2004 Australian Broadcasting Corporation Peter Conrad The Guardian Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Peter Conrad academic amp oldid 1150375574, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
