Dr Stephen H Cheeke

I have published work on aspects of Romanticism, particularly on Byron and P.B. Shelley. My first monograph was titled Byron and Place: History, Translation, Nostlagia (2003). I have also written about the relationship between literature and art (painting, sculpture, photography), publishing Writing for Art: The Aesthetics of Ekphrasis (2008). My interest in the relationship between writing for art and religion, led to a study of John Ruskin, Walter Pater, D.G. Rossetti and Robert Browning, and a book titled Transfiguration: The Religion of Art in Nineteenth-Century Literature Before Aestheticism (2016).  I have recently published a study of Walter Pater and Persons (2024), exploring ideas of personhood, personality, personification, 'style', metempsychosis, and Pater's reception. Other research interests include the early work of W.B. Yeats, Symbolism, Decadence and the 1890s, and modernism, particularly the work of Eliot, Auden and Woolf. My current research is focused upon the relationship between literature and theology during that period, and forms the basis of articles on Yeats, Arthur Symons and Antinomianism; and on Yeats and 'Mystical Nihilism'.

I would be interested in offering PhD supervision in any of those areas.

Teaching:

I currently teach on the following courses:

Literature 1740-1900

Literature 1900-Present

Modernist Writers (Yeats, Eliot, Woolf, Mansfield, Auden)

American Literature: 1945-Present

Romantic Poetry and Poetics (MA level)

Victorian Literature and Place (MA level)