English Department Faculty

Bertrand A. Goldgar
Professor of English and John N. Bergstrom Professor of Humanities

Education
Vanderbilt University, B.A., M.A
Princeton University, M.A., Ph.D.

Interests
Satire
18th-century politics and literature (particularly Pope, Swift, and Fielding)

Advanced courses
Satire
Milton and the Seventeenth Century
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy
Eighteenth-Century Literature

Books
The Curse of Party: Swift's Relations with Addison and Steele (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1961).

(Edited) The Literary Criticism of Alexander Pope (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1965; reprinted Lincoln/London 1979).

Walpole and the Wits: The Relation of Politics to Literature, 1722-1742 (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1976).

(Edited) Henry Fielding, The Covent-Garden Journal and A Plan of the Universal Register-Office, The Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1988).

(Edited) Henry Fielding, Miscellanies, Volume Two, The Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding, commentary and notes by Bertrand A. Goldgar, the text edited by Hugh Amory (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993).

(Edited) Henry Fielding, Miscellanies, Volume Three (Jonathan Wild), The Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding, commentary and notes by Bertrand A. Goldgar, the text edited by Hugh Amory (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1997).

(Edited) The Grub-street Journal, 1730-1733, facsimile edition in 4 vols., with introduction and annotation (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2002).

I have also published 22 essays or articles. The most recent are as follows:

"Fielding's Periodical Journalism," in The Cambridge Companion to Henry Fielding, ed. Claude Rawson (Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 109-121.

"Fielding, Politics, and ‘Men of Genius,'" in Henry Fielding, Novelist, Playwright, Journalist: A Double Anniversary Tribute, Papers delivered at "Henry Fielding: An International Conference at Yale University October 8-9, 2004," ed. Claude Rawson (Univ. of Delaware Press, 2007)

Current projects
Editing two volumes of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift, a major new edition being published in 15 vols. by Cambridge University Press under the general editorship of Claude Rawson (Yale), Ian Higgins (Australian Nat. Univ.), and David Womersley (Oxford).

The first of my volumes, with the text edited by Ian Gadd, is called English Political Writings 1711-1714. It is now in press and will be published in 2008. The second volume, also with the text edited by Ian Gadd, is English Political Writings 1701-1711. I have started work for that volume and will continue research on it this summer and in my sabbatical year, 2008-09.