Jane Cooper
BA, MSt
Literature
Examination Fellow since 2021
Jane is an Examination Fellow in Literature, elected in 2021. She is completing a DPhil on the poetics of sublimity in England, 1660-1740. She is particularly interested in early modern scientific poetry, literary Royalism, and Lucretian reception. Her other research interests include sixteenth-century religious poetry, especially Robert Southwell, Elizabethan and Jacobean verse and stage satire.
Research Areas
16th Century Religious Poetry, Especially Robert Southwell
Elizabethan and Jacobean Verse and Stage Satire
17th Century Atomisms and the Translation and Reception of Lucretius and Hobbes in Restoration Literature
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