Gary R Dyer

Biography

" My research focuses on British literature and culture during the years 1790-1830, the Romantic period. I have worked on satirical verse and fiction, transatlantic literary relations, law and literature, textual studies, and the literature of sexuality. My first book, *British Satire and the Politics of Style, 1789-1832*, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1997, and re-issued in paperback in 2006. I am currently working on a book titled *Lord Byron on Trial: Literature and the Law in the Romantic Period*. I have received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, the Bibliographical Society of America, the New York Public Library, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center of the University of Texas at Austin (twice). I have taught over twenty-five distinct courses in literature, working with students at every level, undergraduate or graduate: introductions to literature, Shakespeare, satire, ""The Literature and Politics of Paranoia,"" both halves of the British literature survey, period courses covering British writing from 1660 to the present, and a course on the early American novel, as well as my primary field, the British Romantic period."

Research Interest

" BOOKS IN PREPARATION Lord Byron on Trial: Literature and the Law in the Romantic Period. This book recounts and analyzes Lord Byron's conflicts with the law in the period 1819-1824 in order to advance a revisionist interpretation of the relationship between literary expression and legal inhibitions in the long eighteenth century. Editor, Melincourt, by Thomas Love Peacock. In preparation for The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock. Gen ed. Freya Johnston."