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Author:   Ruth Abbott (University of Cambridge, UK) ,  Ephraim Levinson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032656335

ISBN 10:   1032656336
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   21 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

List of Contributors Acknowledgements Preface. The Organisation of Knowledge in Thomas Gray’s Manuscripts, 1716-1771 Ruth Abbott Introduction. Literature, Scholarship, and the Disciplines in the Reception of Thomas Gray, 1771-2021 Ephraim Levinson Chapter 1. Thomas Gray, Menippean Satire, and the Antiquarian Method Charlotte Roberts Chapter 2. New Manuscript Material from Thomas Gray’s Grand Tour Stephen Clarke Chapter 3. Thomas Gray as Music Collector Nathalie Dupuis-Désormeaux Chapter 4. Lucretius, Locke, and Latinitas in Thomas Gray’s De Principiis Cogitandi Estelle Haan Chapter 5. Thomas Gray’s Oriental Scholarship Kelsey Jackson Williams Chapter 6. Thomas Gray’s Geographic Imagination Joshua Swidzinski Chapter 7. Thomas Gray among the Medievalists Lotte Reinbold Chapter 8. Queering Thomas Gray’s Celticism Rhys Kaminski-Jones Chapter 9. Thomas Gray’s Understanding and Reviving of Historical Architecture Peter N. Lindfield Chapter 10. Thomas Gray, Authorship, and A Catalogue of the Antiquities, Houses, Parks, Plantations, Scenes, and Situations in England and Wales Ephraim Levinson Chapter 11. Thomas Gray and Meteorology Tess Somervell Chapter 12. Thomas Gray and the Art of Transcribing Historical Manuscripts Ruth Abbott Chapter 13. Thomas Gray as Reader and Writer of the Natural World Scott Mandelbrote and Edwin Rose Index

Reviews

‘At last a book that examines the full range of Thomas Gray’s extraordinary scholarly achievement, revealing, for the first time, his central place in the world of eighteenth-century learning.’ --Peter Sabor, Distinguished James McGill Professor, McGill University, Canada ‘This book brings together a range of cultural, intellectual and literary historians to explore the full range of Gray’s intellectual interests and their relation to his poetry. In a patient series of readings, the book allows a range of different relationships between Gray’s scholarship and his poetry to emerge. The closely integrated studies collected here offer the only modern consideration of Gray as a multidisciplinary researcher, thinker and writer. By bringing new intellectual historical contexts to bear and demonstrating their relevance to particular poems, these essays will reinvigorate study of Gray as a poet.’ --Tom Jones, Professor, University of St Andrews, UK

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Ruth Abbott is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, UK. Ephraim Levinson is a Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews, UK.

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