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Alexander Dick
A scholar of Romantic-era literature and ideas, he writes about how money, philosophy, and politics shaped British writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His work brings big historical debates down to the level of books, language, and everyday life.
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Splores of a Halloween, Twenty Years Ago
by Alexander Dick
About the author
An associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia, he teaches eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and critical theory. Before joining UBC in 2002, he taught at Northern Michigan University and also held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto.
His first book, Romanticism and the Gold Standard: Money, Literature, and Economic Debate in Britain 1790–1830, was published by Palgrave in 2013. He has also co-edited essay collections and published widely on Romantic poetry, fiction, drama, philosophy, political economy, and media.
His research has included Scottish literature and environmental humanities, with a focus on how literary writing responds to large social and economic change. Across his work, he is interested in the way ideas move between literature, public debate, and the material world.