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PROF PETER OTTO



Contact Details

Organization: Culture and Communication
Position: PROFESSOR
Email:
Homepage: http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/people/peter-otto.html
Work: +61 3 8344 5482
Fax: +61 3 8344 5494
Room: 210
Level: 02
Building: John Medley Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Gothic Fiction United Kingdom
Blake, romanticism and modernity United Kingdom
Australian and New Zealand literary studies Australia, New Zealand

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts with Honours Adelaide University 31-Dec-1975
Doctor of Philosophy Adelaide University 31-Dec-1986

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) 01-Sep-2004

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Multiplying worlds: romanticism, modernity, & the emergence of virtual reality Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003
Gothic Fiction and Imagined Worlds: Popular Literature, Emotion, and the transformation of experience in modernity Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Rereading David Malouf's Fly Away Peter: The Great War, Aboriginal Dispossession, and the Politics of Remembering
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Australian Literary Studies
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 35-51
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  • Romanticism, Modernity, and Virtual Reality: An Overview and Reconceptualisation of the Field
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Australian Humanities Review
    Volume: 46
    Issue: May
    Page numbers: 27-38
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Publications in 2008

Books

  • Entertaining the Supernatural. Part 1: Popular Enchantments: Magicians, Conjurors and Charlatans. Online edition.
    Year: 2008
    Publisher: Adam Matthew Publications(Wiltshire)
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  • Entertaining the Supernatural. Part 2: Spiritualism: Mediums, Psychics and Spirits. Online Edition.
    Year: 2008
    Publisher: Adam Matthew Publications(Wiltshire)
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  • Entertaining the Supernatural. Part 3: From Mesmer's 'New Science' to Animal Magnetism, Hypnotism and Psychic Research. Online Edition.
    Year: 2008
    Publisher: Adam Matthew Publications(Wiltshire)
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  • Victorian Popular Culture: A Portal
    Year: 2008
    Publisher: Adam Matthew Publications(Wiltshire)
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Book Chapters

Journal Articles

  • Dreaming of Cyborgs, Sex, and Catastrophe: Warwick's rush to the brink (and a note on Clayton's policy arena)
    Year: 2008
    Journal: 19
    Volume: October 2008
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 6500 words
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Publications in 2007

Books

  • Entertaining the Supernatural: Secular Magic, Spiritualism, Mesmerism and Pyschical Science: a Microfilm Collection of Primary Texts. Part 1: Popular Enchantments: Magicians, Conjurors and Illusionists (20 reels)
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Adam Matthew Publications(Wiltshire)
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  • Entertaining the Supernatural: Secular Magic, Spiritualism, Mesmerism and Pyschical Science: a Microfilm Collection of Primary Texts. Part 2: Spiritualism: Mediums, Psychics and Spirits (20 reels);
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Adam Matthew Publications(Wiltshire)
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  • Entertaining the Supernatural: Secular Magic, Spiritualism, Mesmerism and Pyschical Science: a Microfilm Collection of Primary Texts. Part 3: From Mesmer's "New Science" to Animal Magnetism, Hypnotism and Psychic Research (23 reels)
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Adam Matthew Publications(Wiltshire)
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  • Entertaining the Supernatural: Rare Printed Sources, c1600-1946 from the Harry Price Collection of Magical Literature. Part 1: Popular Enchantments: Magicians, Conjurors and Charlatans. Microfilm Edition (20 reels).
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Adam Matthew Publications(Wiltshire)
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  • Entertaining the Supernatural: Rare Printed Sources, c1600-1946 from the Harry Price Collection of Magical Literature. Part 2: Spiritualism: Mediums, Psychics and Spirits. Microfilm Edition (20 reels)
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Adam Matthew Publications(Wiltshire)
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  • Entertaining the Supernatural: Rare Printed Sources, c1600-1946 from the Harry Price Collection of Magical Literature. Part 3: From Mesmer's 'New Science' to Animal Magnetism, Hypnotism and Psychic Research. Microfilm Edition (20 reels)
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Adam Matthew Publications(Wiltshire)
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Journal Articles

Publications in 2006

Books

  • Blake's Critique of Transcendence: Love, Jealousy, and the Sublime in 'The Four Zoas'. Reprint. First published in 2000.
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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Book Chapters

  • Blake's composite art
    Year: 2006
    Book: Palgrave advances in William Blake studies
    Publisher: Palgrave(Basingstoke)
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  • Nebuchadnezzar's sublime torments: William Blake, Arthur Boyd, and the east
    Year: 2006
    Book: The reception of Blake in the Orient
    Publisher: Continuum(London)
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Journal Articles

  • Performing the resurrection: James Graham and the multiplication of the real
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Cultural & Social History
    Volume: 3
    Page numbers: 325-340
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • Romantic Medievalism and Gothic Horror: Wordsworth, Tennyson, Kendall, and the Dilemmas of Antipodean Gothic
    Year: 2005
    Book: Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian culture
    Publisher: Brepols(Turnhout)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • James Graham as Spiritual Libertine
    Year: 2004
    Book: Libertine Enlightenment: Sex, Liberty and License in the Eighteenth Century
    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan(Basingstoke)
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Major Reference Works

  • Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850:Gothic Fiction
    Year: 2004
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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  • Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era:Imagination
    Year: 2004
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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  • Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850:Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
    Year: 2004
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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  • Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850:Philippe Jacques Loutherbourg (1740-1812)
    Year: 2004
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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  • Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850:The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793)
    Year: 2004
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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  • Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850:The Sublime
    Year: 2004
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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  • Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850:William Blake
    Year: 2004
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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Publications in 2003

Books

  • Gothic Fiction: a Listing and Guide to the Microfilm Collection (204 pages)
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    Publisher: Adam Matthew Publications(Wiltshire)

Book Chapters

  • Gothic Fiction
    Year: 2003
    Book: Gothic Fiction: a Listing and Guide to the Microfilm Collection
    Publisher: Adam Matthew Publications(Wiltshire)
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Publications in 2002

Books

  • Gothic Fiction: a Microfilm Collection of Primary Texts. Part 1: Matthew Lewis and Gothic Horror - Beckford to Lewis (23 reels)
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Adam Matthew Publications(Wiltshire)
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  • Gothic Fiction: a Microfilm Collection of Primary Texts. Part 2: MacKenzie to Zschokke (21 reels)
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Adam Matthew Publications(Wiltshire)
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  • Gothic Fiction: a Microfilm Collection of Primary Texts. Part 3: Gothic Terror: Radcliffe and her Imitators - Boaden to Meeke (25 reels)
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Adam Matthew Publications(Wiltshire)
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  • Gothic Fiction: a Microfilm Collection of Primary Texts. Part 4: Gothic Terror: Radcliffe and her Imitators - Pickard to Wilkinson (23 reels)
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Adam Matthew Publications(Wiltshire)
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  • Gothic Fiction: a Microfilm Collection of Primary Texts. Part 5: Domestic and Sentimental Gothic - Bennett to Lamb (21 reels)
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Adam Matthew Publications(Wiltshire)
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  • Gothic Fiction: a Microfilm Collection of Primary Texts. Part 6: Domestic and Sentimental Gothic - Lathom to Warner (21 reels)
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Adam Matthew Publications(Wiltshire)
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Book Chapters

  • "From the Religious to the Psychological Sublime: The Fate of Young's Night Thoughts in Blake's The Four Zoas
    Year: 2002
    Book: Prophetic Character: Essays on William Blake in Honor of John E. Grant
    Publisher: Locust Hill Press(West Cornwall)
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Journal Articles

  • A Sublime Allegory: Blake, Blake Studies, and the Sublime
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
    Volume: 43
    Issue: Spring
    Page numbers: 61-84
    Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
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Publications in 2001

Books

  • Reprint of "Constructive Vision and Visionary Deconstruction: Los, Eternity, and the Productions of Time in the Later Poetry of William Blake" first published 1991
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    Publisher: Clarendon Press(Oxford)

Journal Articles

  • A Pompous High Priest: Urizen's Ancient Phallic Religion in The Four Zoas
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Blake - An Illustrated Quarterly
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 4-22
    Publisher: Blake(New York)
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  • Supervision Then and Now
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Graduate News
    Volume: August
    Page numbers: 1-2
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  • The Regeneration of the Body: Sex, Religion and the Sublime in James Graham's Temple of Health and Hymen
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Romanticism on the Net
    Volume: 23
    Issue: August 2001
    Page numbers: 385
    Publisher: St Catherine's College
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