Peter Morton's Homepage

Associate Professor
Department of English, Cultural Studies & Australian Studies

School of Humanities
Flinders University
BEDFORD PARK 5042
South Australia

You can (often) find me in Humanities 248
You can call me on (08) 8201 2947 (Voicemail will take messages)
My email address is available through the university website
For emergencies only: My private phone number is: 0421 615 397

Updated May 09

FROM THIS PAGE YOU CAN LINK TO:

Personal:

Short CV, personal details, current activities
My bibliography

Teaching:

The topics I currently teach at Flinders include:

ENGL 2105: Private Parts: Sex, Love and Marriage in 19th Century England
ENGL 2109: Dethroning the Gods: Literary Modernism and Its Enemies, c1920-1955
ENGL 7217: Poetic Techniques: Form and Function in Romantic/Modern Poetry

For more general information about the School I work in, see http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/english

Writing/Research Activities:

Go to my Bibliography for a complete listing.

The George Gissing Website

Darwin and the Literary Imagination: A research bibliography

Woomera and the Anglo-Australian Joint Project 1946-1980
            [A guide to my Fire Across the Desert (1989).]

The Vital Science: Biology and the Literary Imagination 1860-1900 (1984): full text

A guide to my After Light (1996) and a paper on the astonishingly high infant mortality rates in late-Victorian Adelaide (Dead Babies).

Three published short stories: "Diptych"; "Sticks and Stones"; "Real Wood Veneer"


Review of Dennis Baron, De Vere is Shakespeare (1997) [published in Elizabethan Review]

Problems of Historicity in David Malouf's An Imaginary Life.

        [A final draft of this was published in 2000 in CML: Classical and Modern Literature.]

Novel Oxfords: Two Biographical Fictions presenting Edward de Vere as Shakespeare

        [Published in Early Modern Literary Studies 5.2 (September 1999), 6-19.]

The GRANT ALLEN WEBSITE

            [Contains a mass of research materials, still regularly updated.]

           [Regularly updated text of my biography of Grant Allen, The Busiest Man in England]

The "DIARY OF A NOBODY" Website

            [Material accumulated for the first proper edition of this classic. Regularly updated.]

"The Funniest Book in the World": Waugh and The Diary of a Nobody. Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies, 36:1 (Spring 2005).

        [Examines Waugh's annotations to his copy of the Diary acquired in 1946.]

"Polluted with the Diseases and Vices of Centuries": Writers Negating London, 1880-1914.
            [Article published in 2006].

"Lusting for London: The Flight of the Australian Literary Intelligentsia, 1850-1950"
            [50,000w of a work in progress on the history of literary emigration from Australia to London].