Member Profile
Name:
Dr Sara Lodge
Institution:
Senior Lecturer in 19th century literature, University of St Andrews
Academic status:
University/college academic
Main discipline:
Literary Studies
Additional disciplines:
Art History
Cultural Studies
History
Performance Studies
Cultural Studies
History
Performance Studies
Other societies:
MLA, Society of Authors, ALCS
Research interests:
My interests in Victorian culture are interdisciplinary, with particular attention to nineteenth-century poetry, periodical culture, comedy, and children’s literature. I have written 3 books and over 50 articles on topics ranging from the poet and cartoonist Thomas Hood (1799-1845), to the critical history of Jane Eyre, the literary annuals, the writing of Charles Lamb, John Clare, Mary Russell Mitford, Emma Jane Warboise, Edward Lear, Max Beerbohm, and Andrew Lang. My recent book, Inventing Edward Lear (Harvard UP, 2018) examines Lear's musical sound-world and the importance of his background as a musician and composer to his most famous nonsense poems. The book also deals with image and text in Lear's artistic work, with his self-elected membership of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and with other neglected aspects of his self-invention, from his religious nonconformity to his life-long habit of self-caricature. You can hear some of Lear's music at my website
edwardlearsmusic.com
The website also has details of a series of concerts that I have organised and will perform in, featuring Lear's words and music, at various venues throughout the UK in 2019-20. My most recent research project is a book about Victorian women detectives.
edwardlearsmusic.com
The website also has details of a series of concerts that I have organised and will perform in, featuring Lear's words and music, at various venues throughout the UK in 2019-20. My most recent research project is a book about Victorian women detectives.