Juan Christian Pellicer

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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

Tags: English, English Literature, British Literature, Poetry, Genre mixing, Eighteenth Century, Literary Reception, Virgil, Shakespeare, Pastoral, Georgic, Epic, Alexander Pope, John Milton, Allusion

Publications

Monograph:

Preposterous Virgil: Reading through Stoppard, Auden, Wordsworth, Heaney (London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2021/22. In the series New Directions in Classics)

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

'How is Walden georgic?', in Georgic Literature and the Environment: Working Land, Reworking Genre, ed. Sue Edney and Tess Somervell (Routledge, forthcoming 2022)

'Twentieth-Century Georgic: V. Sackville-West', in A History of Georgic Writing, ed. Paddy Bullard (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2021/22)

‘Theocritus in Nineteenth-Century Poetry’, in Brill’s Companion to Theocritus, ed. Poulheria Kyriakou, Evina Sistakou, and Antonios Rengakos   (Leiden: Brill, 2021), 789-812

‘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 (2021). Theocritus in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry. In Kyriakou, Poulheria; Sistakou, Evina & Rengakos, Antonios (Ed.), Brill's Companion to Theocritus. Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 9789004373556. p. 789–812. doi: 10.1163/9789004466715_035.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2019). Georgic as Genre: The Scholarly Reception of Vergil in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain. In Bär, Silvio Friedrich & Hauser, Emily (Ed.), Reading Poetry, Writing Genre: English Poetry and Literary Criticism in Dialogue with Classical Scholarship. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781350039322. p. 79–93.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2017). A region in the mind: Heaney's Jutland and the circumference of nordic literature. Scandinavica - An International Journal of Scandinavian Studies. ISSN 0036-5653. 56, p. 123–146. Full text in Research Archive
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2015). Queen Anne, Patron of the Arts? In Reverand, Cedric D. (Eds.), Queen Anne and the Arts. Bucknell University Press. ISSN 9781611486315. p. 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), p. 217–227. doi: 10.1111/1754-0208.12152.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2012). Impediments and Inhibitions: Thwarted Communication in Great Expectations. In Mitchell, Domhnall; Goring, Paul & Lothe, Jakob (Ed.), Each Other's Yarns: Essays on Narrative and Critical Method for Jeremy Hawthorn. Novus Forlag. ISSN 978-82-7099-687-2. p. 91–103.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2012). Pastoral and Georgic. In Martindale, Charles & Hopkins, David (Ed.), Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, vol. 3 (1660-1790). Oxford University Press. ISSN 978-0-19-921981-0. p. 287–321.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2012). Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics in Charlotte Smith's Beachy Head. In Saunders, Timothy; Martindale, Charles; Pite, Ralph & Skoie, Mathilde (Ed.), Romans and romantics. Oxford University Press. ISSN 978-0-19-958854-1. p. 161–182. doi: 10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199588541.003.0009.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2011). Pushkin's "To Ovid" and Virgil's Georgics. Pushkin Review/Pushkinskii Vestnik. ISSN 1526-1476. 14, p. 145–154. doi: 10.1353/pnr.2011.0004.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2008). The Eighteenth Century' (Chapter XI) section 3. Year's Work in English Studies. ISSN 0084-4144. 87(1), p. 638–656.
  • 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), p. 84–97. doi: 10.1093/english/efn006.
  • 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), p. 125–128. doi: 10.1179/174582008X272824.
  • 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), p. 453–488.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2007). Chapter 11, The Eighteenth Century. Section 3, Poetry. Year's Work in English Studies. ISSN 0084-4144. 86, p. 578–605.
  • 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), p. 43–47.
  • 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), p. 131–155.
  • 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), p. 303–304. doi: 10.1093/notesj/gjm140.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2007). Reception, wit, and the unity of Virgil's Georgics. Symbolae Osloenses. ISSN 0039-7679. 82, p. 90–115. doi: 10.1080/00397670802328196.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2006). "Still under that hawthorn!": Pastoral in Tony Harrison's Elegy in an Urban Graveyard. In Skoie, Mathilde & Bjørnstad Velázquez, Sonia (Ed.), Pastoral and the Humanities. Arcadia Re-inscribed. University of Exeter Press. ISSN 1904675581. p. 53–62.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2006). The Georgic. In Gerrard, Christine (Eds.), A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry. Blackwell Publishing. ISSN 1405113162. p. 403–416.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2006). XI. The Eighteenth Century. Poetry. Year's Work in English Studies. ISSN 0084-4144. 85, p. 551–566.
  • 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), p. 185–198. doi: 10.1093/library/7.2.185.
  • 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, p. 13–14.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2005). 'A dry consumptive smoaking Sot': Ned Ward's Epigram on John Philips? Notes and Queries. ISSN 0029-3970. 52(3), p. 346–349. doi: 10.1093/notesj/gji317.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2005). Virgil�s Georgics II in Paradise Lost. Translation and Literature. ISSN 0968-1361. 14(2), p. 129–147.
  • 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), p. 223–224. doi: 10.1093/notesj/gji235.
  • 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), p. 400–406.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2004). John Gay, Wine (1708) and the Whigs. British Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies. ISSN 0141-867X. 27(2), p. 245–255.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2004). How Revolutionary was Lyrical Ballads (1798-1800)? Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES). ISSN 1502-7694. 3(3), p. 221–239.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2003). 'Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires': Gatsby and Our Mutual Friend, Literary Sinews: Essays in Honour of Bjørn Tysdahl. Novus Forlag. ISSN 8270993751. p. 209–212.
  • 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), p. 67–93.
  • 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), p. 197–201.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2001). The rise and fall of the English formal georgic in the eighteenth century and the challenge of historical accuracy. In Eliassen, Knut Ove; Fauskevåg, Svein-Eirik & Goring, Paul (Ed.), 1700-tallet. Artikler om språk, litteratur, musikk og estetikk. Høyskoleforlaget, Kristiansand. ISSN 82-7634-384-8. p. 133–142.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2001). Dryden, Chesterfield, and Johnson's 'Celebrated Letter': A Case of Compound Allusion. Notes and Queries. ISSN 0029-3970. p. 413–414.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2000). The rise and fall of the British formal georgic and the challenge of historical accuracy. In Eliassen, Knut Ove; Fauskevåg, Svein-Eirik & Goring, Paul (Ed.), 1700-tallet. Artikler om språk, litteratur, musikk og estetikk. Cappelen Damm Høyskoleforlaget. p. 133–142.

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  • Pellicer, Juan Christian & Goodridge, John (2007). John Dyer, The Fleece. A Poem in Four Books. Cyder Press. ISBN 9781861741844. 190 p.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian; Lothe, Jakob & Rem, Tore (2003). Literary Sinews: Essays in Honour of Bjørn Tysdahl. Novus Forlag. ISBN 8270993751. 247 p.
  • 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 p.

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  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2019). How is 'Walden' georgic?
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2019). What is Georgic? Eight Easy Theses.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2018). The Articulation of Genre in The Seasons. In Jung, Sandro & Van De Walle, Kwinten (Ed.), The Genres of Thomson's The Seasons. Lehigh University Press. ISSN 9781611462784. p. 119–135.
  • 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), p. 623–624. doi: 10.1111/1754-0208.12579.
  • 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), p. 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), p. 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. p. 111–120.
  • 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), p. 93–104.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2010). Pastoral Palimpsests: Essays in the Reception of Theocritus and Virgil. Translation and Literature. ISSN 0968-1361. 19, p. 93–104.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2010). When Genres Converge: Pastoral and Georgic in Eighteenth-Century Literature. 2 timer.
  • 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 (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). Det tapte paradiset. [Newspaper]. Vårt Land.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2008). Unity and the Georgics.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2007). Reception and the Georgics.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2007). How is Windsor-Forest a Jacobite poem?
  • 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). Innslag om Shakespeare i NRK P2 Kulturbeitet. [Radio]. NRK Marienlyst.
  • 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 (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 (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 (2001). Tory patronage and Miltonic imitation: questions of authority in John Philips's Bleinheim (1705) and Cyder (1708).
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2001). The Politics of Cyder.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2000). The politics of Cyder.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (2000). The politics of Cyder.
  • 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 (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 (2002). John Philips (1676-1709): Life, Works and Reception.
  • Pellicer, Juan Christian (1997). Commerce, Industry and Social Ethics in the Augustan Georgic: A study of John Dyer�s The Fleece. Reprosentralen.

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