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Allen Reddick

Prof. Dr. Allen Reddick

Ord. Professor für englische Literatur

Current Courses taught by Allen Reddick
 
Portrait 
Research Interests 
 Allen Reddick received his B.A. from the University of the South, his M.A. from Cambridge University and Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York. From there, he became Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University from 1985 until 1993. During three of these years he also served as director ("Head Tutor") of the Undergraduate Program of English at Harvard. In 1993, he came to the University of Zurich as "Ordinarius (Full Professor) für Englische Literatur". During the years he has held grants or fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the British Academy, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), the Howard Foundation, Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, the Bibliographical Society of America, the Josephine de Karman Foundation, the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and the American Society for 18th-Century Studies.

His teaching involves a wide range of topics and writers pertaining but not confined to the period from the late 16th- to the early 19th centuries. He also teaches courses on topics and writers from the 20th century.

Prof. Reddick’s research interests include a study of wit (involving language, epistemology, gender, rhetoric, humor, sociality, and politics) from Shakespeare to Blake; satire; book history, the distribution of republican books in England and North America, and the creation of public space in which their ideas could be absorbed; the Enlightenment encyclopedia; the dictionary; painting and architecture; and the works of Samuel Johnson.

Editorial Board:

SEL: Studies in English Literature; Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual
 
Bibliography 

Books:

Johnson's Unpublished Revisions of his Dictionary: A Facsimile Edition with Commentary and Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

The Making of Johnson's Dictionary, 1746-1773; Cambridge University Press, 1990; 2nd revised edition, 1996

Pamphlet:

Johnson's Dictionary: the Sneyd-Gimbel Copy (Harvard, Cambridge, MA), 1991


In progress:

Thomas Hollis's Dragon's Teeth: Republican English Books given anonymously by Thomas Hollis to the City of Bern. A descriptive bibliography and analysis (Harvard Library Bulletin)

Thomas Hollis's Dragon's Teeth (II): Anti-Jesuit and Republican Books given anonymously by Thomas Hollis to the City of Zurich and other European Cities. A descriptive bibliography and analysis (Harvard Library Bulletin)

Thomas Hollis's Republican Books and the European Network: Anonymous Gifts on the Continent, 1750-1774 (Harvard Library Bulletin and Harvard University Press)

Strange Poetics: Wit from Shakespeare to Blake


Web:

Senior contributing author of Johnson's Dictionary Website, maintained by the University of Birmingham, UK



Selected articles:

"Public Spheres, Private Ambitions: Thomas Hollis, James Boswell, and the Books of Liberty" (forthcoming)

"Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, 1755 (with Charles Richardson's New Dictionary of the English Language, 1836-37)," The Oxford History of English Lexicography, ed. A. P. Cowie (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)

"Les dictionnaires anglais du XVIIIe siècle," Les Dictionnaires en Europe au XVIIIe siècle, special number, Revue Dix-huitième siècle, 2006

"O Britannia, hail! James Boswell and Thomas Hollis at Liberty in Geneva and Switzerland," Travaux sur la Suisse des Lumières, ed. Saba Bahar and Valerie Cossy (Geneva: Slatkine)

"Revision and the Limits of Collaboration: Hands and Texts in Johnson's Dictionary," New Perspectives on Johnson's Dictionary, ed. Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

"Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century," SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 43 (Summer 2003)

"Dictionaries," in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, gen. ed. Alan Kors (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)

"Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language and its Texts: Quotation, Context, Anti-Thematics," Yearbook of English Studies 28, (1998)

"Avoiding Swift: Influence and the Body." Aileen Douglas, Patrick Kelly and Ian Campbell Ross, eds. Locating Swift: Essays from Dublin on the 250th Anniversary of the Death of Jonathan Swift, 1667 1745. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1998

'Johnson Beyond Jacobitism: Signs of Polemic in the Dictionary and the Life of Milton' in ELH: English Literary History, 64 (1997)

"G.B. Tiepolo Tricentennial Year: Exhibitions and Reconsiderations," Eighteenth-Century Studies 30 (1997)

"Swift's Knife; or, the Way Inward," in Symbolik von Weg und Reise, ed. Paul Michel (Bern/Frankfurt, 1992)