Jennifer Batt

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Academic Position:

Postdoctoral Project Co-ordinator

Research Interests:

Eighteenth century; History of the Book

Links:

Faculty Profile Page | Online Podcasts | Digital Miscellanies Index | Digital Miscellanies Index Blog

Dr Jennifer Batt's research focuses on eighteenth century literature, and is informed by an engagement with the History of the Book and digital humanities. She is particularly interested in uncovering the ways 'ordinary' eighteenth century men and women engaged with literature as readers and writers. Her work on Stephen Duck explores (among other things) the ways a labouring-class writer who grew up in a rural village might find ways of participating in mainstream literary culture, while her work on newspapers and magazines reveals the ways in which these media made literary culture available to an ever-increasing readership across the country. She is a Postdoctoral Project Coordinator for the Digital Miscellanies Index project; she is highly interested in the fundamental role that miscellanies play in shaping eighteenth century poetic culture.

Recent Publications

'A Collection of Poems and Charles Tooke', Notes and Queries N.S 58.3 (2011) 394-99
' "It ought not to be lost to the world": the Transmission and Consumption of Eighteenth-Century Lyric Verse', Review of English Studies 62 (255) (2011) 414-32 [Winner of the Review of English Studies Essay Prize for 2010]
Review of Bridget Keegan, 'British Labouring-Class Nature Poetry, 1730-1837', The Byron Journal 38.1 (2010) 94-6.
'Eighteenth-Century Verse Miscellanies', Literature Compass (2012).

#	Title	Description	Contributor
1	Mary Leapor	Dr Jennifer Batt talks about Mary Leapor, an 18th Century kitchen maid who wrote accomplished...	Jennifer Batt
2	18th Century Labouring Class Poetry	Dr Jennifer Batt gives a talk on Stephen Duck, one of the 18th Century labouring-class poets	Jennifer Batt

#	Title	Description	Contributor
1	Mary Leapor	Dr Jennifer Batt talks about Mary Leapor, an 18th Century kitchen maid who wrote accomplished...	Jennifer Batt
2	18th Century Labouring Class Poetry	Dr Jennifer Batt gives a talk on Stephen Duck, one of the 18th Century labouring-class poets	Jennifer Batt

#	Essay Title	Description	Contributor
1	Stephen Duck	Briefly, in 1730, the most talked about poet in England was an agricultural labourer. The story...	Jennifer Batt
2	Mary Leapor	A servant maid who died in relative obscurity at the age of just twenty-four, Mary Leapor (1722-...	Jennifer Batt
3	Eighteenth century labouring-class writing	By Jennifer Batt	Jennifer Batt

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Jennifer Batt

Recent Publications