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Biography
Tony Cousins is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a Member of the Order of Australia. He has published fourteen books in America and England, including monographs on Thomas More, Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse, and on religious verse of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
He has published many articles, all in refereed and, for the most part, international journals. He is on the Editorial Board of Moreana, the international journal of More and Erasmus studies, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Language, Literature and Culture.His research interests include the literature and culture of early modern England, the historiography of the history of ideas, and utopian narrative. He has been a Visiting Adjunct Professor at the Renaissance Studies Center at the University of Massachusetts, a Visiting Scholar at Princeton and at Penn State, and a Library Fellow at the Library of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was also an Honorary Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities. He holds doctorates in both English Literature and Political Theory.
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Projects
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Andrew Marvell: Loss and Aspiration, Home and Homeland in Miscellaneous Poems
1/02/15 → 31/07/15
Project: Research
Research Outputs
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The Donna Angelica and the British enlightenment poets: six studies from Butler to Crabbe
Cousins, A. D., 2025, New York ; London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. 177 p. (Twenty-First Century Perspectives on British Literature and Society)Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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A. D. Hope and the ambivalence of modernity: reconsiderations
Cousins, A. D. (ed.) & Napton, D. (ed.), 2024, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 180 p.Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book/Anthology › peer-review
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Barron Field and A. D. Hope: Australia in colonial myth and modern counter-myth
Cousins, A. D., 2024, A. D. Hope and the ambivalence of modernity: reconsiderations. Cousins, A. D. & Napton, D. (eds.). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 43-60 18 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript/introduction › peer-review
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Friendships in prison: Imlac, Rasselas, the Hermit, and the Astronomer
Cousins, A. D., 2024, Samuel Johnson and the powers of friendship. Cousins, A. D., Derrin, D. & Napton, D. (eds.). New York ; London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, p. 82-114 33 p. (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-century Literature).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Introduction
Cousins, A. D., 2024, A. D. Hope and the ambivalence of modernity: reconsiderations. Cousins, A. D. & Napton, D. (eds.). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 1-20 20 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript/introduction › peer-review