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| Thomas Fulton |
| Assistant Professor of English |
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Contact Information |
| Office: |
Murray Hall, 025 |
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College Ave, New Brunswick |
| Email: |
thomas.fulton@rutgers.edu |
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(732) 932-8534
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On leave Spring 2008 |
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| Specialization |
| sixteenth and seventeenth-century English literature; Shakespeare; history of drama; cultural history; politics and philosophy |
| Biography |
B.A., Wisconsin (Madison); Ph.D., Yale
Professor Fulton has written on 15th, 16th, and 17th-century literature, on cultural and intellectual history, and on the history of the book. He is currently finishing a book entitled Revolutionary Reading: Milton’s Political Manuscripts and Printed Polemic in the 1640s, which uses Milton’s commonplace book and its focus on constitutional history to rethink his sources and orientation. It also argues that Milton’s work is structured by a dialogue between the hermeneutics of biblical precedent that dominated English political thought and a new, rationally constructed, political method. He is also editing a collection of essays with Ann Baynes Coiro entitled Rethinking Historicism.
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| Publications |
“Edward Phillips and the Manuscript of the “Digression,” forthcoming in a special issue of Milton Studies 48 (2008).
“Speculative Shakespeares: The Trials of Biographical Historicism” (review essay) Modern Philology 103:3 (2006): 385-408.
“Mankind in a Year without Kings,” with Jessica Brantley, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 36.2 (2006): 319-52.
“Areopagitica and the Roots of Liberal Epistemology,” English Literary Renaissance 37.1 (2004):
42-82.
"The True and Naturall Constitution of that Mixed Government’: Massinger’s The Bondman and the Influence of Dutch Republicanism,” Studies in Philology 99:2 (2002): 152-177.
“Hamlet’s Inky Cloak and Donne’s Satyres,” The John Donne Journal 20 (2001): 71-106.
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Undergraduate Courses Taught |
Graduate Courses Taught |
British Literature to 1800
Seminar on John Milton
Milton Lecture
Shakespeare: The Jacobean Works (lecture)
Shakespeare Seminar
Vices, Machiavels and Revengers: A History of English Tragedy
Utopia and Dystopia: Political Fiction from Plato to the Present
Principles of Literary Study
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Book History and the Early Modern Text
Advanced Research Methods
Literature and Revolution: Social and Scientific Discovery in the Age of Milton |
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