Joshua Barnes
Joshua Barnes
PhD candidate in English and Theatre Studies, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne.
Joshua Barnes’ research investigates the relationship between generic forms and social forms in the literature of the long eighteenth century. Studying the mutually enabling relationship between epic, romance, the early English novel and other prose forms in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, his PhD project aims to describe the conditions of possibility of this heterogeneous literary field.