Thomas Keymer
Thomas Keymer, MA, PhD, FEA, is Chancellor Jackman Professor of English at the University of Toronto and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford. He is a specialist in literature of the Restoration, eighteenth century and Romantic periods, with research interests in narrative and the novel; print culture and history of the book; literature, politics and national identities; theories of intertextuality, influence and reception; the theory and practice of textual editing. His books include Richardson’s Clarissa and the Eighteenth-Century Reader (Cambridge), Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel (Oxford), The Cambridge Companion to English Literature from 1740 to 1830 (Cambridge, co-edited with Jon Mee), Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy: A Casebook (Oxford), and Pamela in the Marketplace: Literary Controversy and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland (Cambridge, co-authored with Peter Sabor). He has also published extensively on Johnson and Smart, and on topics across the extended period from Marvell and civil war poetry to Romantic autobiography and Jane Austen. His editions of primary texts include Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (Oxford World’s Classics), Fielding’s The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon and Tom Jones (both Penguin), Richardson’s Pamela (Oxford World’s Classics), and The Gentleman’s Magazine 1731-1745 (Pickering & Chatto).
Professor Keymer is a Fellow of the English Association and an elected Member of the International Association of University Professors of English. His current and forthcoming projects include The Life of Samuel Richardson (Blackwell Critical Biographies), an edition of Johnson’s Rasselas (Oxford World’s Classics), a volume on Sterne for the Cambridge Companions to Literature series, and a monograph provisionally entitled Fielding and the Trade of Authoring. He is co-General Editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, for which he is editing Clarissa and the correspondence with Sarah Chapone.