School of Critical Studies

Dr David Shuttleton

  • Reader (English Literature)

telephone: 01413306369
email: David.Shuttleton@glasgow.ac.uk


Biography

David Shuttleton is primarily a specialist in the literature of the long eighteenth century with a particular expertise in literature and medicine (representations of disease and embodiment, illness narratives, medical biography and medico-literary culture). His 1990 Edinburgh doctoral thesis was a study of the then obscure ‘nerve doctor’ George Cheyne. His essays have appeared in such leading journals as The British Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Life, Women’s Writing etc, and in various volumes including Medicine and the Enlightenment, edited by Roy Porter (Rodophi: 1995), The Arts of Seventeenth-Century Science edited by Claire Jowitt and Diane Watt (Ashgate: 2002), Imagining and Framing Disease in Cultural History edited by G. S. Rousseau et al (Palgrave: 2003) and The Year’s Work in English Studies (OUP). He co-edited the volumes De-centering Sexualites; Politics and Representations Beyond the Metropolis (Routledge: 2000) and Women and Poetry, 1660-1750 (Palgrave: 2003). He is the author of Smallpox and the Literary Imagination, 1660-1820 (CUP: 2007) and a contributing editor to the forthcoming Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, for which has edited the novelist’s exchanges with Cheyne. A biographical study of the blind poet Thomas Blacklock is forthcoming. He is currently co-ordinating the development of teaching and research in the Medical Humanities, including the launch of a new course, ‘Medical Humanities; an Introduction’ suitable for visiting JYA students (available from September 2011)

David is currently PI for the major AHRC funded project The Consultation Letters of William Cullen at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh to create an on-line scholarly edition of this important medical archive.

He is also PI for a Royal Society of Edinburgh funded two-year project to establish – with co-applicant Dr Gavin Miller - the Medical Humanities Research Network Scotland.

He is also a participant in the AHRC funded project ‘The Values of Environmental Writing’.

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Number of items: 26.

2013

(2013) The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson with George Cheyne. [Scholarly Edition] (In Press)

Shuttleton, D.E. and Coyer, M., (Eds.) (2013) Scottish Medical Culture and Literature 1726-1832. Rodopi, Amsterdam. (In Press)

Shuttleton, D. (2013) "Nae Hottentots": Thomas Blacklock, Robert Burns, and the Scottish vernacular revival. Eighteenth-Century Life, 37 (1). pp. 21-50. ISSN 0098-2601 (doi:10.1215/00982601-1895199)

Shuttleton, D.E. (2013) John Thomson’s “Account…of Dr William Cullen”; the making of a medical biography. In: Shuttleton, D.E. and Coyer, M. (eds.) Scottish Medical Culture and Literature 1726-1832. Rodopi, Amsterdam. (In Press)

Shuttleton, D.E. (2013) ”Not the Meanest Part of My Works and Experience”: Dr George Cheyne’s Correspondence with Samuel Richardson. In: Vasset, S. (ed.) Medicine and Narration in the Eighteenth Century. Voltaire Foundation, Oxford. (In Press)

2012

Shuttleton, D. (2012) The Journalistic Life: Thomas Blacklock. In: Brown, S.W. and McDougal, W. (eds.) The History of the Book in Scotland: Enlightenment and Expansion, 1707-1800. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748619122

2011

Shuttleton, D. (2011) George Cheyne and "The Catechism": a missing title from the press of Samuel Richardson. Library: Transactions of The Bibliographical Society, 12 (1). pp. 37-49. ISSN 0024-2160 (doi:10.1093/library/12.1.37)

O'Brien, E., Jung, S., Shuttleton, D.E., and Dennis, C. (2011) The Eighteenth Century. Year's Work in English Studies, 90 (1). pp. 552-599. ISSN 0084-4144 (doi:10.1093/ywes/mar002)

2010

O'Brien, E., Smallegoor, E., Jung, S., and Shuttleton, D.E. (2010) The Eighteenth Century. Year's Work in English Studies, 89 (1). pp. 555-595. ISSN 0084-4144 (doi:10.1093/ywes/maq002)

2009

Lynn, S., Smallegoor, E., Shuttleton, D.E., and Purinton, M. (2009) The Eighteenth Century. Year's Work in English Studies, 88 (1). pp. 611-671. ISSN 0084-4144 (doi:10.1093/ywes/map009)

2007

Shuttleton, D.E. (2007) Smallpox and the Literary Imagination 1660-1820. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9780521872096

2006

Shuttleton, D.E. (2006) 'When a disease it selfe doth Cromwel it': the rhetoric of smallpox at the Restoration. In: Turner, D.M. and Stagg, K. (eds.) Social Histories of Disability and Deformity. Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine (25). Routledge, London, UK, pp. 39-55. ISBN 9780415360982

2005

Shuttleton, D.E. (2005) Contagion by conceit: mentruosity and the rhetoric of smallpox into the age of inoculation. In: Carlin, C.L. (ed.) Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 228-242. ISBN 9781403939265

2003

Prescott, S. and Shuttleton, D.E., (Eds.) (2003) Women and poetry, 1660-1750. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9781403906540

Shuttleton, D.E. (2003) An unattributed printed poem by Thomas Blacklock (1721–1791). Notes and Queries, 50 (2). pp. 218-221. ISSN 0029-3970 (doi:10.1093/nq/50.2.218 )

Shuttleton, D. (2003) Anne Killigrew (1660-85) '... let 'em rage, and 'gainst a Maide Conspire'. In: Women and Poetry 1660-1750. Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 29-39. ISBN 1403906548

Shuttleton, D. (2003) Mary Chandler's Description of Bath (1733): an Early-Georgian tradeswoman poet. In: Sweet, R. and Lane, P. (eds.) Women and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century England: On the Town. Ashgate, pp. 173-194. ISBN 9780754607304

Shuttleton, D. (2003) Smallpox and the literary imagination 1660-1820. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521872096

Shuttleton, D.E. (2003) Imagining smallpox in the long eighteenth century: inscription and interpretation. In: Rousseau, G.S., Gill, M. and Haycock, D.B. (eds.) Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 68-91. ISBN 9781403912923

Shuttleton, D.E. (2003) A culture of disfigurement: imagining smallpox in the long eighteenth century. In: Rousseau, George Sebastian (ed.) Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 68-91. ISBN 9781403912923

2002

Shuttleton, D. (2002) Bantering with scripture: Dr Archibald Pitcairne and articulate irreligion in late seventeenth century Edinburgh. In: Jowitt, C. and Watt, D. (eds.) The Arts of Seventeenth-Century Science: Representations of the natural World in Seventeenth-Century Culture. Ashgate, pp. 58-73. ISBN 0754604179

2001

Shuttleton, D.E. (2001) Mary Chandler, Elizabeth Rowe, and "Ralph's Miscellany"; coincidental biographical and bibliographical findings. Notes and Queries, 48 (1). pp. 31-34. ISSN 0029-3970 (doi:10.1093/nq/48.1.31)

1999

Shuttleton, D.E. (1999) John Arbuthnot. In: Yolton, J.W., Price, J.V. and Stephens, J.N. (eds.) The Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century British Philosophers. Thoemmes. ISBN 9781855061231

1997

Shuttleton, D. (1997) Jacobitism and millennial enlightenment : Lord Forbes of Pitsligo's "remarks" on the mystics. Enlightenment and Dissent, 15 . pp. 33-56. ISSN 0262-7612

1995

Shuttleton, D.E. (1995) 'A modest examination' John Arbuthnot and the Scottish Newtonians. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 18 (1). pp. 46-62. ISSN 0141-867X (doi:10.1111/j.1754-0208.1995.tb00181.x)

1991

Shuttleton, D.E. (1991) Molly Keane. In: Henderson, L. and Watson, N. (eds.) Contemporary Novelists. St. James Press, pp. 515-517. ISBN 9781558620360

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2011 (PI) [co-applicant Dr Gavin Miller] Royal Society of Edinburgh (£9,600) Medical Humanities Research Network Scotland


2011: (PI) The Arts and Humanities Research Council (£561,800) The Consultation Letters of William Cullen at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh [a Glasgow University on-line, digital edition]

2007: The British Academy. £500 for CUP book illustrations.

2005: Leverhulme Research Fellowship (£22,000). Awarded to edit the Cheyne-Richardson correspondence for Cambridge University Press edition.

2003:  AHRB (now Arts & Humanities Research Council). Research Award to complete  Smallpox and the Literary Imagination  1660-1820, February-May 2004.  £13,153.

2003-2004: Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, Edinburgh University. Visiting Fellowship.

2002: UWA Senate Research Fund (for picture research etc). £300.

2001: UWA Senate Research Fund (for electronic editorial assistance) £200.

2001: Williams Clark Memorial Library Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles. Researching 'The Poetics of Smallpox, 1660-1820'. $2,000.

2000: UWA Conference Fund. £400 award.

1997: UWA Senate Research Award. £1000.

1985: British Academy Scholarship for postgraduate studies in the humanities.

 

David is interested in supervising research on all aspects of literature 1660-1820, but in particular inter-disciplinary work on literature and medicine (illness narratives, representations of disease, embodiment, the senses etc). He has a particular interest in medical discourse and the medico-literary culture of the Scottish Enlightenment. He also has interests in modern LGBT writing, sexual dissidence and queer theory. 

David will be on research leave from September 2011-September 2012, but normally he convenes the Year Two course ‘Literature and Ideology’, while contributing to the teaching of honours courses on eighteenth-century literature and  literary theory. He also contributes to the taught MLitt Modernities for which he offers a topic course ‘Queer Fictions’. He also contributes to the Principia Consortium Scottish Enlightenment scheme. He currently has four Phd students under his supervision. and is interested in supervising research relating to literature and medicine.