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Carson Bergstrom
Dr Carson Bergstrom
postal addressRoom 120, Crescent House, Salford Crescent, M5 4WT.
email addressC.Bergstrom@salford.ac.uk
telephone0161 295 4418
Key Memberships
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Member of School: School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
From October 2011 to present.
Full Member of Research Centre: Centre for English Literature & Language
From January 2010 to present.
Profile Summary
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Key Qualifications
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1996
PhD English Literature (from University of Edinburgh).
1984
MA (first class) English Literature (from University of British Columbia).
1981
BA (first class) English Literature (from University of British Columbia).
Key Publications
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Authored Books
2003
Jan
Bergstrom, C 2003, The Rise of New-Science Epistemological, Linguistic, and Ethical Ideals and the Lyric Genre in the Eighteenth Century, Edwin Mellen Press, Lampeter, Wales.
Refereed Journal Articles
2012
Jan
Bergstrom, C 2012, 'Form and the Pleasures of Interpretation: Reading William Collins's Persian Eclogues', English Studies, 93.
2011
Oct
Bergstrom, C 2011, 'Edward Young and the Abyss: Is Night Thoughts a Poem Written for a Destitute Time?', Eighteenth-Century Poetry, 1(1), pp.3-17.
2007
Dec
Bergstrom, C 2007, ''William Collins and Personification (Once Again)'', ANQ: American Notes and Queries, 20(4), pp.29-39.abstract
2007
May
Bergstrom, C 2007, '"'Critical and Curious Learning': New Science, Neoclassicism, and New Criticism in the Long Restoration'', Prose Studies, 29(1), pp.86-103.abstract
2003
Jan
Bergstrom, C 2003, 'William Collins and the Politics of the 'Persian Eclogues': Re-thinking the Category of Pre-Romanticism', TRIVIUM, Vol 34, pp.35-52.
2002
Jan
Bergstrom, C 2002, 'The Soul and Body of Poetry: Description and Collins's Odes', Augustan Studies, 1, pp.43-55.
1994
Jan
Bergstrom, C 1994, 'Purney, Pastoral, and the Polymorphous Perverse: Sexual Idealism and Early Eighteenth-Century Pastoral', British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 17(2), pp.149-163.
Other Journal Articles
1987
Jan
Bergstrom, C 1987, 'Initiation Rites in Canadian Fiction', Inter Arts: A Journal of Third World Connections, 1(4), pp.pp. 25-26, 32.
1983
Jan
Bergstrom, C 1983, 'Alexander Pope's Eloisa to Abelard: The Dynamics of Sublimation', Annual Transactions of the Samuel Johnson Society of the Northwest, 14, pp.93-109.
Book Sections
2012
Dec
Bergstrom, C 2012 ' Literary Coteries, Network Theory, and The Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester', in: Literary Coteries in the Long Eighteenth Century, University of Delaware Press, Newark, USA.
2011
May
Bergstrom, C 2011 'James Thomson's 'A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton' and the Revisions to The Seasons: New Science and Poetics in the Eighteenth Century', in: Experiments in Genre in Eighteenth-Century Literature, Academia Press, Ghent, Belgium.
Reviews
2012
Dec
Bergstrom, C 2012, 'Review of Sandro Jung, The Fragmented Poetic: Eighteenth-Century Uses of an Experimental Form', in: English Studies, Routledge, London, United Kingdom.
2012
Sep
Bergstrom, C 2012, 'Review of Sandro Jung, David Mallet, Anglo-Scot: Poetry, Patronage, and Politics in the Age of Union', in: ANQ: American Notes and Querie, Routledge, London, United Kingdom.
Key Presence
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Conference Presentations
2012
Feb
Shakespeare's Puns and Neuroscience: Understanding Surface and Depth in the Experience of Meaning (Shakespeare Inside-out: Depth/Surface/Meaning, Lancaster University, United Kingdom, February 2012).
2010
Sep
Theory without Form: Reading Collins's Persian Eclogues (New Formalism, Neo-Formalism, and the Reassessment of Form, Tropes, and Genre in Contemporary Literary Scholarship, University of Ghent, Belgium, September 2010).
2008
Nov
The Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester: Talk to Romanticism (The Midlands Romantic Seminar: Regional Romanticism Conference, United Kingdom, November 2008 to November 2008).
Honorary Posts (e.g. Visiting Appointments)
2010
Sep
Associate Fellow (Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies and Print Culture, Belgium, September 2010).
Invited Papers and Lectures
2011
Dec
Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream: Structure and Meaning (English Literature Undergraduate Shakespeare Lecture, Ghent, Belgium, December 2011).
2011
Dec
Romeo as Comic or Tragic Character (English Literature Level 3 Lecture, Ghent University, Belgium, December 2011).
2010
May
Thomson and Description (Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies and Print Culture, University of Ghent, Belgium, May 2010).
Journal Editorship
2011
Mar
Eighteenth-Century Poetry (March 2011).

Reviews Editor 

Other Evidence of External Esteem
2006
Nov
Chair of the Board of Trustees of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation (United Kingdom, November 2006).