Peter Cosgrove

Associate Professor of English

Ph.D., Columbia University (1989)

210 Sanborn House
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755

Peter.W.Cosgrove@Dartmouth.EDU

Courses

Professor Cosgrove specializes in eighteenth-century British literature. He teaches courses on Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, and the feminist writers of the period including Mary Astell and Mary Chudleigh. Since this era saw the rise of the novel, Professor Cosgrove also teaches Defoe, Richardson, Fielding and Sterne. His other pedagogical interests include Irish literature from Maria Edgeworth to the present, and he teaches a course on the Irish Literary Revival at the beginning of the 20th century. Professor Cosgrove has also taught in the Humanities and in the interdisiplinary College Courses. The most recent addition to his curriculum is a course on the Culture of the Cold War, in which he addresses domestic and international issues through novels and films of the middle period of the last century.

Selected Publications

"Film and History: Authenticity and the Non-Narrative Image in Barry Lyndon and Tom Jones," in Eighteenth-Century Fiction on Screen, ed. Robert Mayer, Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2002
"Edmund Burke, Gilles Deleuze, and the Subversive Masochism of the Image," ELH 66 (1999) 405-437.
Impartial Stranger: History and Intertextuality in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1999.
"The Circulation of Genres in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". ELH 63 (1996): 109-38.
"Snapshots of the Absolute:Mediamachia in James Agee and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" American Literature 67 (1995): 239-57.
"Undermining the Text: Edward Gibbon, Alexander Pope, and the Anti-Authenticating Footnote" in Annotation and its Texts, edited by Stephen A. Barney. Oxford University Press, 1991, 130-152.
"Affective Unities: The Esthetics of Music and Factional Instability in Eighteenth-Century England," Eighteenth-Century Studies, 22:2, 1988/89, 133-156