Matthew Taunton
I studied for my BA and MA in English Literature at University College London receiving those degrees in 2003 and 2004. I then moved to Birkbeck and the London Consortium, where I wrote my PhD about literary and cinematic representations of mass housing in London and Paris, graduating in 2008. This research became the basis of my first book, Fictions of the City: Class, Culture and Mass Housing in London and Paris, published by Palgrave in 2009. I am now writing a book about the cultural effects of the Russian Revolution in Britain.
At various times I have taught English Literature (and its theoretical, historical and cultural contexts) at UCL, Goldsmiths, Central St Martins, Birkbeck , Camberwell College of Arts, and the Open University. I took up a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in the English Department at Queen Mary in 2010. Around the same time I started in my current role as associate editor of Critical Quarterly, a journal of literary criticism, film, cultural studies and creative writing established in 1958 and published by Blackwell-Wiley. I am an active book reviewer and have published reviews in Textual Practice, the Times Literary Supplement, the New Statesman and Critical Quarterly.
I arrived at UEA in 2012, first as a Leverhulme Fellow and then, from September 2013, as a lecturer.
At various times I have taught English Literature (and its theoretical, historical and cultural contexts) at UCL, Goldsmiths, Central St Martins, Birkbeck , Camberwell College of Arts, and the Open University. I took up a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in the English Department at Queen Mary in 2010. Around the same time I started in my current role as associate editor of Critical Quarterly, a journal of literary criticism, film, cultural studies and creative writing established in 1958 and published by Blackwell-Wiley. I am an active book reviewer and have published reviews in Textual Practice, the Times Literary Supplement, the New Statesman and Critical Quarterly.
I arrived at UEA in 2012, first as a Leverhulme Fellow and then, from September 2013, as a lecturer.
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Red Britain shows that the cultural resonances of the Russian Revolution are more far-reaching and various than has previously been acknowledged. Each of the five chapters takes as its subject one particular problem or debate, and investigates the ways in which it was politicised as a result of the Russian Revolution and the subsequent development of the Soviet state. The chapters focus on the idea of the future; numbers and arithmetic; law and justice; debates around agriculture and landowning; and finally orality, literacy, and religion. In all of these spheres, Red Britain shows how the medievalist, romantic, oral, pastoral, anarchic, and ethical emphases of English socialism clashed with, and were sometimes overwritten by, futurist, utilitarian, literate, urban, statist, and economistic ideas associated with the Bolshevik Revolution.
Papers by Matthew Taunton
Red Britain shows that the cultural resonances of the Russian Revolution are more far-reaching and various than has previously been acknowledged. Each of the five chapters takes as its subject one particular problem or debate, and investigates the ways in which it was politicised as a result of the Russian Revolution and the subsequent development of the Soviet state. The chapters focus on the idea of the future; numbers and arithmetic; law and justice; debates around agriculture and landowning; and finally orality, literacy, and religion. In all of these spheres, Red Britain shows how the medievalist, romantic, oral, pastoral, anarchic, and ethical emphases of English socialism clashed with, and were sometimes overwritten by, futurist, utilitarian, literate, urban, statist, and economistic ideas associated with the Bolshevik Revolution.