Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Areas of Interest
- British Eighteenth-Century Literature
- British Romanticism
- Book History and Print Culture
Biography
Philip Trotter is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English and the Book History and Print Culture Collaborative Specialization at the University of Toronto. He holds an M.A. in English from McMaster University and is a Junior Fellow at the University of St. Michael’s College. His dissertation addresses the interaction between sentimental fiction and the sublime, investigating the effects of immoderate feeling at the nexus of literary history, moral philosophy, and aesthetics. He has published on Laurence Sterne and Sterneana.
List of Publications
“‘Wearing Presumption’s Garb’: Isaac Brandon’s Fragments: In the Manner of Sterne,” The Shandean 32 (2021): 127–155.
“Ema Vyroubalová and James Robert Wood (eds). The Literary Papers of the Reverend Jermyn Pratt (1723–1791),” The Review of English Studies 74, no. 313 (2023): 181–183.
“The Sentimental Novel in the Eighteenth Century. Ed. Albert J. Rivero,” The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 54, no. 1–2 (2021): 169–172.