Brian Corman

Brian Corman

First Name: 
Brian
Last Name: 
Corman
Title: 
Professor Emeritus; Graduate Faculty; Undergraduate Instructor
Office Location : 
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 729, 170 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5R 2M8
Education: 
AB, University of Chicago
AM, University of Chicago
PhD, University of Chicago

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Areas of Interest: 
  • Drama 1600-1800
  • Literary Theory (esp. Genre and Literary History, History of Literary Criticism and Theory)
  • The Novel (esp. Pre-1800 but some more recent)
  • 17th-and 18th-Century Prose (Satire, History, Politics)

Publications

Ed. The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy (2013).

Women Novelists before Jane Austen: The Critics and their Canons (2008);

Genre and Generic Change in English Comedy 1660-1710 (1993);
Articles on Congreve, Etherege, Farquhar, Fielding, Johnson, Pope, Purcell, Shadwell, Swift, Tate, genre theory, canon theory, literary history, reception theory and history.

Current Research

Theatre in the age of Queen Anne.

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Brian Corman Professor Emeritus; Graduate Faculty; Undergraduate Instructor