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Riley's thought-provoking study focuses on poets who invert (and in Melville's case challenge) the idea that a poet requires a vocationally secure space or frame of mind in which to 'create' (p.177). ... Summing up: Recommended. * J. N. Barron, CHOICE *

Riley's thought-provoking study focuses on poets who ""invert (and in Melville's case challenge) the idea that a poet requires a vocationally secure space or frame of mind in which to 'create'"" (p.177). ... Summing up: Recommended. * J. N. Barron, CHOICE *

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After completing his AHRC-funded PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2012, Peter Riley was appointed Early Career Fellow in American Literature at the University of Oxford (2012-2014), and then Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Exeter (2014-Present). He has also held Fellowships at the Rothermere American Institute and Linacre College, Oxford. He is a co-founder of BrANCA (British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists), and co-organised the inaugural BrANCA symposium 'Aesthetics/Politics' (2013), as well as the third biennial symposium 'The Not Yet of the Nineteenth-Century U.S' (2017). He also organised the International Walt Whitman Week at Exeter in 2016.

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