Juan Christian Pellicer

Background
Dr. Art., University of Oslo (2002)
M.Phil. in English Studies, Medieval Literature 1100—1500, University of Oxford (1994)
Scholarly interests
• Long poems and their varieties in literary history
• Georgic and pastoral traditions in British and American literature
• Reception of the classics in English, especially the works of Virgil
• Allusion and imitation
• Milton and his reception
• Shakespeare
• Contemporary verse
• Main period: the early eighteenth century
Publications
Co-edited books
John Dyer, The Fleece. A Poem in Four Books (1757), ed. John Goodridge and Juan Christian Pellicer (Cheltenham: Cyder Press, 2007)
Jakob Lothe, Juan Christian Pellicer and Tore Rem, eds, Literary Sinews: Essays in Honour of Bjørn Tysdahl (Oslo: Novus Press, 2003)
John Philips, Cyder. A Poem in Two Books (1708), ed. John Goodridge and J.C. Pellicer, with an Introduction by J.C. Pellicer (Cheltenham: Cyder Press, 2001)
Book chapters
‘Theocritus in Nineteenth-Century Poetry’, in Brill’s Companion to Theocritus, ed. Evina Sistakou et al., forthcoming (Leiden: Brill)
‘Georgic as Genre: The Scholarly Reception of Vergil in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain’, in Reading Poetry, Writing Genre: English Poetry and Literary Criticism in Dialogue with Classical Scholarship, ed. Silvio Bär and Emily Hauser (London: Bloomsbury, 2019), 79—93
‘The Articulation of Genre in The Seasons’, in The Genres of Thomson’s The Seasons, ed. Sandro Jung and Kwinten Van De Walle (Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 2018) 119—135
‘Queen Anne, Patron of the Arts?’, in Queen Anne and the Arts, ed. Cedric D. Reverand (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2015), 57—64
'Pastoral and Georgic', in The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, vol 3, 1660-1790, ed. Charles Martindale and David Hopkins (OUP, 2012), 287-321
'Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics in Charlotte Smith's Beachy Head', in Romans and Romantics, ed. Timothy Saunders et al. (OUP, 2012), 161-82
‘The Georgic’, in Christine Gerrard, ed., A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), 403-16
‘“Still under that hawthorn!”: Pastoral in Tony Harrison’s Elegy in an Urban Graveyard’, in Pastoral in the Humanities: Arcadia Reinscribed, ed. Mathilde Skoie and Sonia Velasquez (Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2006), 53-62
‘“Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires”: Gatsby and Our Mutual Friend’, in Jakob Lothe, Juan Christian Pellicer and Tore Rem, eds, Literary Sinews: Essays in Honour of Bjørn Tysdahl (Oslo: Novus Press, 2003), 209-12
'The rise and fall of the British formal georgic and the challenge of historical accuracy', in Knut Ove Eliassen, Svein-Erik Fauskevåg and Paul Goring, eds., 1700-tallet. Artikler om språk, litteratur, musikk og estetikk (Kristiansand: Høyskoleforlaget, 2000), 133-42
Longer journal articles
'A Region in the Mind: Heaney’s Jutland and the Circumference of Nordic Literature’, Scandinavica 56 (2017), 123—46
‘Celebrating Queen Anne and the Union in Great Britain’s First Georgic’, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 37 (2014), 217—27
'Corkscrew or cathedral? The politics of Alexander Pope’s Windsor-Forest and the dynamics of literary kind', Huntington Library Quarterly 71/3 (2008), 453-88
'"And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song": Allusion and imitation in Tony Harrison's A Kumquat for John Keats', English (Journal of the English Association) 57 (2008), 84-97
'Reception, wit, and the unity of Virgil’s Georgics', Symbolae Osloenses 82 (2007), 90-115
‘"I hear such strange things of the Union’s fate": Charles Carter Lee’s Virginia Georgics', Early American Literature 42 (2007), 131-55
'Harleian Georgic from Tonson’s Press: The Publication of John Philips’s Cyder, 29 January 1708', The Library (Journal of the Bibliographical Society), 7th ser., 7 (2006), 185-98
‘Virgil’s Georgics II in Paradise Lost’, Translation and Literature 14 (2005), 129-47
‘John Gay, Wine (1708) and the Whigs’, British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 27 (2004), 245-55
‘How Revolutionary was Lyrical Ballads (1798-1800)?’, Nordic Journal of English Studies 3 (2004), 221-39
‘The georgic at mid-eighteenth century and the case of Dodsley’s “Agriculture”’, Review of English Studies 54 (2003), 67-93
Shorter journal articles
'Francis, thou art translated: Shakespeare as inspiration for scenic principle in Tomás Bretón and Ricardo de la Vega’s zarzuela La verbena de la paloma (1894)', Hispanic Research Journal 9 (2008), 125-8
'Shakespeare's "Saltiers"/Satyrs in The Winter's Tale and Virgil's saltantis Satyros', Notes and Queries 54 (2007), 303-4
'The implications of Nautilus Island in Robert Lowell's "Skunk Hour"', American Notes and Queries 20/2 (2007), 43-7
'"The food of my delighted fancy": Another Echo of Lucrece in Keats', American Notes and Queries 19/3 (2006), 13-14
‘“A dry consumptive smoaking Sot”: Ned Ward’s Epigram on John Philips?’, Notes and Queries 52 (2005), 346-9
‘Apollo and Mercury in Ben Jonson's poem to Shakespeare: An allusive paraphrase of Horace's utile dulci', Notes and Queries 52 (2005), 223-4
‘Christopher Smart’s The Hop-Garden: A satirical parody of John Philips’s Cyder?’, Notes and Queries 51 (2004), 400-6
‘Cerealia (1706): Elijah Fenton’s burlesque of Milton and Spenser in critique of John Philips’, Notes and Queries 50 (2003), 197-201
‘Dryden, Chesterfield and Johnson’s “celebrated letter”: A Case of Compound Allusion’, Notes and Queries 48 (2001), 413-14
Reviews and review articles
Contributor on eighteenth-century poetry, The Year's Work in English Studies vols 85-7, 2006-8 (reviewing all material published in 2004, 2005, and 2006):
'The Eighteenth Century' (Chapter XI) section 3, The Year's Work in English Studies 87 (2008), 638-56
'The Eighteenth Century' (Chapter XI) section 3, The Year's Work in English Studies 86 (2007), 578-605
'The Eighteenth Century' (Chapter XI) section 3, The Year's Work in English Studies 85 (2006), 551-66
Virgil Made English: The Decline of Classical Authority, by Tanya M. Caldwell. Pastoral Palimpsests: Essays in the Reception of Theocritus and Virgil, edited by Michael Paschalis. Reviewed in Translation and Literature 19 (2010), 93-104.
Thesis
‘John Philips, 1676-1709: Life, Works and Reception’. Doctoral thesis, University of Oslo, 2002, pp. 479
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2019). Georgic as Genre: The Scholarly Reception of Vergil in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain, In Silvio Friedrich Bär & Emily Hauser (ed.), Reading Poetry, Writing Genre: English Poetry and Literary Criticism in Dialogue with Classical Scholarship. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350039322. Chapter 5. s 79 - 93
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2017). A region in the mind: Heaney's Jutland and the circumference of nordic literature. Scandinavica - International Journal of Scandinavian Studies. ISSN 0036-5653. 56, s 123- 146 Full text in Research Archive.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2015). Queen Anne, Patron of the Arts?, In Cedric D. Reverand (ed.), Queen Anne and the Arts. Bucknell University Press. ISBN 9781611486315. Kapittel 3. s 57 - 64
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2014). Celebrating Queen Anne and the Union of 1707 in Great Britain's First Georgic. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. ISSN 1754-0194. 37(2), s 217- 227 . doi: 10.1111/1754-0208.12152
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2012). Impediments and Inhibitions: Thwarted Communication in Great Expectations, In Domhnall Mitchell; Paul Goring & Jakob Lothe (ed.), Each Other's Yarns: Essays on Narrative and Critical Method for Jeremy Hawthorn. Novus Forlag. ISBN 978-82-7099-687-2. 5. s 91 - 103
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2012). Pastoral and Georgic, In Charles Martindale & David Hopkins (ed.), Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, vol. 3 (1660-1790). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-921981-0. Ch 10. s 287 - 321
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2012). Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics in Charlotte Smith's Beachy Head, In Timothy Saunders; Charles Martindale; Ralph Pite & Mathilde Skoie (ed.), Romans and romantics. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-958854-1. Ch 8. s 161 - 182
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2011). Pushkin's "To Ovid" and Virgil's Georgics. Pushkin Review/Pushkinskii Vestnik. ISSN 1526-1476. 14, s 145- 154 . doi: 10.1353/pnr.2011.0004
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2008). ‘And Doubly Sweet a Brotherhood in Song’: Allusion and Imitation in Tony Harrison's A Kumquat for John Keats. English. ISSN 0013-8215. 57(217), s 84- 97 . doi: 10.1093/english/efn006
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2008). Corkscrew or Cathedral? The Politics of Alexander Pope's _Windsor-Forest_ and the Dynamics of Literary Kind. The Huntington Library Quarterly. ISSN 0018-7895. 71(3), s 453- 488
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2008). Francis, thou art translated: Shakespeare as inspiration for scenic principle in Tomás Bretón and Ricardo de la Vega’s zarzuela La verbena de la paloma (1894). Hispanic Research Journal. ISSN 1468-2737. 9(2), s 125- 128 . doi: 10.1179/174582008X272824
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2008). The Eighteenth Century' (Chapter XI) section 3. Year's Work in English Studies. ISSN 0084-4144. 87(1), s 638- 656
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2007). Chapter 11, The Eighteenth Century. Section 3, Poetry. Year's Work in English Studies. ISSN 0084-4144. 86, s 578- 605
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2007). "I Hear Such Strange Things of the Union's Fate": Charles Carter Lee's Virginia Georgics. Early American Literature. ISSN 0012-8163. 42(1), s 131- 155
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2007). Reception, wit, and the unity of Virgil's Georgics. Symbolae Osloenses. ISSN 0039-7679. 82, s 90- 115 . doi: 10.1080/00397670802328196
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2007). Shakespeare's "Saltiers"/Satyrs in The Winter's Tale and Virgil's saltantis Satyros. Notes and Queries. ISSN 0029-3970. 54(3), s 303- 304 . doi: 10.1093/notesj/gjm140
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2007). The implications of Nautilus Island in Robert Lowell's "Skunk Hour". ANQ. A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews. ISSN 0895-769X. 20(2), s 43- 47
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2006). Harleian Georgic from Tonson’s Press: The Publication of John Philips’s Cyder, 29 January 1708. Library. ISSN 0024-2160. 7(2), s 185- 198 . doi: 10.1093/library/7.2.185
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2006). "Still under that hawthorn!": Pastoral in Tony Harrison's Elegy in an Urban Graveyard, In Mathilde Skoie & Sonia Bjørnstad Velázquez (ed.), Pastoral and the Humanities. Arcadia Re-inscribed. University of Exeter Press. ISBN 1904675581. kapittel 5. s 53 - 62
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2006). The Georgic, In Christine Gerrard (ed.), A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry. Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 1405113162. kapittel 29. s 403 - 416
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2006). "The food of my delighted fancy": Another echo of Lucrece in Keats. ANQ. A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews. ISSN 0895-769X. 19, s 13- 14
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2006). XI. The Eighteenth Century. Poetry. Year's Work in English Studies. ISSN 0084-4144. 85, s 551- 566
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2005). 'A dry consumptive smoaking Sot': Ned Ward's Epigram on John Philips?. Notes and Queries. ISSN 0029-3970. 52(3), s 346- 349 . doi: 10.1093/notesj/gji317
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2005). Apollo and Mercury in Ben Jonson's poem to Shakespeare: An allusive paraphrase of Horace's utile dulci. Notes and Queries. ISSN 0029-3970. 52(2), s 223- 224 . doi: 10.1093/notesj/gji235
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2005). Virgil�s Georgics II in Paradise Lost. Translation and Literature. ISSN 0968-1361. 14(2), s 129- 147
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2004). How Revolutionary was Lyrical Ballads (1798-1800)?. Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES). ISSN 1502-7694. 3(3), s 221- 239
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2004). John Gay, Wine (1708) and the Whigs. British Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies. ISSN 0141-867X. 27(2), s 245- 255
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2004). Smart�s The Hop-Garden: A Satirical Parody of John Philips�s Cyder?. Notes and Queries. ISSN 0029-3970. 51 (n.s.)(4), s 400- 406
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2003). 'Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires': Gatsby and Our Mutual Friend, In Literary Sinews: Essays in Honour of Bjørn Tysdahl. Novus Forlag. ISBN 8270993751. Artikkel. s 209 - 212
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2003). Cerealia (1706): Elijah Fenton�s burlesque of Milton and Spenser in critique of John Philips. Notes and Queries. ISSN 0029-3970. 248 (n.s. 509(2), s 197- 201
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2003). The georgic at mid-eighteenth century and the case of Dodsley�s 'Agriculture'. Review of English Studies. ISSN 0034-6551. 54(213), s 67- 93
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2001). Dryden, Chesterfield, and Johnson's 'Celebrated Letter': A Case of Compound Allusion. Notes and Queries. ISSN 0029-3970. s 413- 414 Show summary
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2001). The rise and fall of the English formal georgic in the eighteenth century and the challenge of historical accuracy, In Knut Ove Eliassen; Svein-Eirik Fauskevåg & Paul Goring (ed.), 1700-tallet. Artikler om språk, litteratur, musikk og estetikk. Høyskoleforlaget, Kristiansand. ISBN 82-7634-384-8. s 133 - 142 Show summary
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2000). The rise and fall of the British formal georgic and the challenge of historical accuracy, In Knut Ove Eliassen; Svein-Eirik Fauskevåg & Paul Goring (ed.), 1700-tallet. Artikler om språk, litteratur, musikk og estetikk. Cappelen Damm Høyskoleforlaget. s 133 - 142
- Pellicer, Juan Christian & Goodridge, John (ed.) (2007). John Dyer, The Fleece. A Poem in Four Books. Cyder Press. ISBN 9781861741844. 190 s.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian; Lothe, Jakob & Rem, Tore (2003). Literary Sinews: Essays in Honour of Bjørn Tysdahl. Novus Forlag. ISBN 8270993751. 247 s.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2001). John Philips, Cyder, A Poem in Two Books (1708). The Cyder Press, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education. ISBN 1-86174-109-X. 86 s. Show summary
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2019). How is 'Walden' georgic?.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2019). What is Georgic? Eight Easy Theses.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2018). Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne. By Joseph Hone. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2017. vi + 209 p. £60 (hb). ISBN: 978-0-19-881407-8. [Review]. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. ISSN 1754-0194. 41(4), s 623- 624 . doi: 10.1111/1754-0208.12579
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2018). The Articulation of Genre in The Seasons, In Sandro Jung & Kwinten Van De Walle (ed.), The Genres of Thomson's The Seasons. Lehigh University Press. ISBN 9781611462784. Chapter 7. s 119 - 135
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2016). A region in the mind: Heaney's Jutland and the circumference of Nordic literature.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2016). 'Milton and the People'. European Journal of English Studies (EJES). ISSN 1382-5577. 20(1), s 111- 112 . doi: 10.1080/13825577.2015.1039396
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2015). How and why are pastoral and georgic minor genres in the eighteenth century?.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2013). To preserve and ‘make germinate’: Seamus Heaney’s language of natural processes, primarily in the ‘moss’ poems.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2012). The Universal Epic: Milton's Paradise Lost. British Politics Review. ISSN 1890-4505. 7(4), s 10- 11
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2011). Hva vet vi om mannen som skrev Macbeth?.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2010). Anmeldelse av "Antikken i ettertiden", red. Mathilde Skoie og Gjert Vestrheim (2010). Klassisk Forum. ISSN 0801-3179. (2), s 111- 120
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2010). Charlotte Smith’s Beachy Head and the Eighteenth-Century Tradition of Generic Mixture in Poetry.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2010). Hvordan moderne resepsjon hjelper oss å lese gamle tekster: W. H. Audens lesning av Homer som en nærlesning av Vergil.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2010). Pastoral Palimpsests: Essays in the Reception of Theocritus and Virgil. Translation and Literature. ISSN 0968-1361. 19, s 93- 104
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2010). Virgil Made English: The Decline of Classical Authority by Tanya M. Caldwell. Pastoral Palimpsests: Essays in the Reception of Theocritus and Virgil. Edited by Michael Paschalis. Translation and Literature. ISSN 0968-1361. 19(1), s 93- 104
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2010). When Genres Converge: Pastoral and Georgic in Eighteenth-Century Literature. 2 timer.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2009). Pastoral and Georgic.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2009). ‘Poems of Mixed Genre: Reading Virgil’s Eclogues and Georgics through Charlotte Smith’s Beachy Head’.
- Eriksen, Per & Pellicer, Juan Christian (2008, 25. august). Det tapte paradiset. Vårt Land.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2008). Unity and the Georgics.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2007). How is Windsor-Forest a Jacobite poem?.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2007). Reception and the Georgics.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2007). Resepsjonen av Vergils Ekloger og Georgica i Storbritannia, fra renessansen til romantikken.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2006). How is Pope's Windsor-Forest a Jacobite poem?.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2006). What is Georgic?.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian & Børresen, Dag Are (2005, 30. august). Innslag om Shakespeare i NRK P2 Kulturbeitet. [Radio]. NRK Marienlyst.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2004). A strategic promotional publication: John Philips�s Cyder (29 Jan. 1708).
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2004). John Gay, Wine (1708) and the Whigs.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2004). Teaching the English canon through contemporary poetry: Suggestions for exploring Tony Harrison�s �A Kumquat for John Keats� (1981) in class.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2003). How did Jacob Tonson�s publications of Milton�s Paradise Lost (1688) and Dryden�s Virgil (1697) prepare for the imitation of Milton and Virgil in the eighteenth century?.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2003). 'Still under that hawthorn!': Pastoral in Tony Harrison�s Elegy in an Urban Graveyard.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2003). 'Still under that hawthorn!': Pastoral in Tony Harrison�s Elegy in an Urban Graveyard.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2002). John Philips (1676-1709): Life, Works and Reception. Show summary
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2001). The Politics of Cyder.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2001). Tory patronage and Miltonic imitation: questions of authority in John Philips's Bleinheim (1705) and Cyder (1708).
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2000). The politics of Cyder.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (2000). The politics of Cyder.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (1999). "The Peak and Decline of the English Formal Georgic. 1744-1764.".
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (1999). "The uses of luxury: Dyer's treatment of economic issues in The Fleece".
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (1999). "The uses of luxury: Dyer's treatment of economic issues in The Fleece", 1999-01-06, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, annual conference, Oxford.
- Pellicer, Juan Christian (1997). Commerce, Industry and Social Ethics in the Augustan Georgic: A study of John Dyer�s The Fleece.