Philip Trotter

Philip Trotter is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English and the Book History and Print Culture Collaborative Specialization at the University of Toronto, researching the relationship between sentiment and the sublime in the long eighteenth century. His dissertation, a study of literary history and the history of ideas, investigates the effects and representation of immoderate feeling in texts ranging from the philosophical to the literary and from the canonical to the lesser-known. He has published research on the religious poetry of Christopher Smart and on Laurence Sterne and Sterneana.

List of Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

• “Practicing Enthusiasm in Jubilate Agno,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 57, no. 4 (2024): 511–518. 
• “‘Wearing Presumption’s Garb’: Isaac Brandon’s Fragments: In the Manner of Sterne,” The Shandean 32 (2021): 127–155. 

Book Reviews:

• “Michael B. Gill. A Philosophy of Beauty: Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, and Art,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 58, no. 1 (2024) (forthcoming).
• “Ema Vyroubalová and James Robert Wood (eds.). The Literary Papers of the Reverend Jermyn Pratt (1723–1791),” The Review of English Studies 74, no. 313 (2023): 181–183. 
• “Albert J. Rivero (ed.). The Sentimental Novel in the Eighteenth Century,” The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 54, no. 1–2 (2021): 169–172.