Research Interests:British literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; poetry and poetics; aesthetics; historiography; critical theory; science and literature.

Noel Jackson teaches eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature with a focus on British Romanticism. He is the author of Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and other essays on Romantic literary culture.  His current project examines how late eighteenth-century and Romantic poets make the cognitive forms of rationality – calculation, induction, inference, and abstraction, among other mental processes – central to their literary practice and to conceptions of imaginative thinking more generally.

He regularly teaches "Reading Poetry" and “The Art of the Probable: Literature and Probability," in addition to upper-level courses on various subjects in British literature; recent courses include "Eighteenth-Century Literature: Making the Modern Self," "Romantic Poetry: Form and Reform," and "British Poetry and the Science of Mind."

Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry
Cambridge University Press, 2008

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"The Time of Beauty," Studies in Romanticism (forthcoming).

"Rhyme and Reason: Erasmus Darwin's Romanticism," Modern Language Quarterly 70.2 (June 2009): 171-194.

"Archaeologies of Perception: Reading Wordsworth After Foucault," European Romantic Review 18, no. 2 (April 2007): 175-185.

"Rethinking the Cultural Divide:  Walter Pater, Wilkie Collins, and the Legacies of Wordsworthian Aesthetics," Modern Philology 102, no. 2 (November 2004): 207-234.

"Critical Conditions: Coleridge, 'Common Sense,' and the Literature of Self-Experiment," ELH 70, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 117-149.

“Strange Power of Speech,” The Lancet 374, no. 9700 (October 31, 2009): 1494-1495.

Review of Jeffrey C. Robinson, Unfettering Poetry: The Fancy in British Romanticism, in Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (forthcoming).

Review of Marc Redfield, The Politics of Aesthetics:  Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism, in 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 13 (2006): 396-400.

“Historiography: Britain” and “Solitude and Community,” in Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850, ed. Christopher John Murray (New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004), 504-5, 1067-8.

Review of Maureen McLane, Romanticism and the Human Sciences: Poetry, Population, and the Discourse of the Species, in Modern Philology 101, no. 3 (February 2004): 477-80.

Review of Alan Richardson, British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind, in Keats-Shelley Journal 52 (2003): 233-235.

21L.003 Reading Fiction

21L.004 Reading Poetry

21L.017 The Art of the Probable: Literature and Probability

21L.470 Eighteenth-Century Literature

21L.471 Major English Novels

21L.476 Romantic Poetry

21L.701 Literary Interpretation

21L704 Studies in Poetry: British Poetry and the Sciences of the Mind

21L704 Studies in Poetry: What's the Use of Beauty?

21L.709 Studies in Literary History: Manifestos and the Invention of the Modern