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Peter Otto

Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor
Culture and Communication
Virtual Reality
William Blake
Gothic Fictions
History of Imagination
Popular Entertainments
Architectures of Imagination
Visual Cultures
Romanticism and Contemporary Culture
The Human and the Humanities
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Peter Otto

 
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Arts
 
Primary Interest
Literary Studies
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Architectures of Imagination: Bodies, Buildings, Fictions, and Worlds

This project aims to offer an account of the roles played by fiction and imagination in the production of space during the long 18th century..

2018 - 2022
Completed
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William Blake in the 21st century: poetry, prophecy, the history of imagination, and the futures of Romanticism

William Blake, one of the most important Romantic artists, provides an exemplary instance of the creative and iconoclastic. By recovering Bl..

2012 - 2017
Completed
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Gothic Fiction and Imagined Worlds: Popular Literature, Emotion, and the transformation of experience in modernity

This project revises our understanding of Gothic Fiction, the most important prose genre of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuri..

2008 - 2012
Completed
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Multiplying worlds: romanticism, modernity, & the emergence of virtual reality

This project contends that virtual reality first emerges during the Romantic Period (1780-1830). Further, it argues that the contemporary pr..

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Research Grant

Scholarly Works

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“Second Birth” and gothic fictions in Matthew Lewis’s The Monk, Catherine Blake’s “Agnes, " and William Blake’s Vala, or the four zoas

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Book Chapter  |  2021

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Making, mapping, and unmaking worlds: globes, panoramas, fictions, and oceans

Peter Otto

Book Chapter  |  2021

This chapter’s primary focus is on ‘A View of the Town of Sydney’, a panorama exhibited at Robert Burford’s Leicester Square Panor..

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Negotiating the ‘Holy Land’: Cross-Cultural Encounters from Bonaparte to Blake

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Journal article  |  2020  |  Postcolonial Studies: culture, politics, economy

© 2020 The Institute of Postcolonial Studies. Napoleon's invasion of Egypt, launched in 1798, is closely linked to the birth of mo..

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Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2

Peter Otto

Journal article  |  2020  |  European Romantic Review

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Looking “thro … & not with” the Eye: From Romanticism to the Counter Culture, Rock and Roll, and the Anthropocene

Peter Otto

Journal article  |  2020  |  EUROPEAN ROMANTIC REVIEW

[A] poem is not without date, but despite its date it is always yet to come, it speaks in a “now” that does not answer to historic..

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Light, moonlight, darkness and the world

Peter Otto

Book Chapter  |  2020

This essay places the work of Faye Toogood in relation to a history of design and of imagination, through a discussion of her 'Nig..

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William Blake, the Secularization of Religious Categories, and the History of Imagination

Peter Otto

Book Chapter  |  2019

This chapter takes as its starting point the discovery, by Kerri Davies and Marsha Keith Schuchard, that Blake’s mother (Catherine..

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The ends of illustration: explanation, critique, and the political imagination in Blake's title-pages for Genesis

Peter Otto

Book Chapter  |  2019

In the last year of his life, Blake was commissioned by John Linnell (1792-1882) to produce an illustrated copy of Genesis, the Bi..

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William Blake, the ancient Gnostics, and the birth of modern Gnosticism

Peter Otto

Book Chapter  |  2019

On the 10th December 1825, after dining at the house of the painter and socialite Eliza Aders and her husband Charles, in the comp..

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“Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!”: Ōe Kenzaburō and William Blake on Bodies, Biopolitics, and the Imagination

Peter Otto

Book Chapter  |  2019

Kenzaburo Oe’s ‘Rouse up O Young Men of the New Age!’ describes the narrator’s engagement with the poetry of Blake and growing rel..

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Literary Studies
Art History, Theory and Criticism
Understanding Past Societies
Communication
Expanding Knowledge
Cultural Studies
Other Culture and Society
Anthropology
Design
Historical Studies

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2019

University of Melbourne
2004

FAHA - Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor

Culture and Communication

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

Adelaide University

Bachelor of Arts with Honours

Adelaide University

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