Frances Ferguson

Mary Elizabeth Garrett Professor in Arts and Sciences, Professor of English and the Humanities. Theorist of representation and culture whose books carefully explored the change in writing from the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. Author of Wordsworth: Language as Counter-Spirit (1977), Solitude and the Sublime: Romanticism and the Aesthetics of Individuation (1992), Pornography: The Theory (2005) and essays on contemporary literary theory and various eighteenth- and nineteenth-century topics. Currently working on a project that aims to identify the difference that Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Bentham's work on children and education made to their accounts of modern democratic political liberalism.