Thomas Gray Among the Disciplines

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Ruth Abbott is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Ephraim Levinson is a Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews, UK.

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It explores Thomas Gray's polymathic scholarship within the changing norms of 18th-century disciplines, locating him within histories of specialisation and examining the ways in which he challenges their narratives. Offering fresh understanding, it will appeal to scholars of eighteenth-century literary, intellectual, and scientific history

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List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Preface. The Organisation of Knowledge in Thomas Gray's Manuscripts, 1716-1771

Ruth Abbott

Introduction. Literature, Scholarship, and the Disciplines in the Reception of Thomas Gray, 1771-2021

Ephraim Levinson

Chapter 1. Thomas Gray, Menippean Satire, and the Antiquarian Method

Charlotte Roberts

Chapter 2. New Manuscript Material from Thomas Gray's Grand Tour

Stephen Clarke

Chapter 3. Thomas Gray as Music Collector

Nathalie Dupuis-Désormeaux

Chapter 4. Lucretius, Locke, and Latinitas in Thomas Gray's De Principiis Cogitandi

Estelle Haan

Chapter 5. Thomas Gray's Oriental Scholarship

Kelsey Jackson Williams

Chapter 6. Thomas Gray's Geographic Imagination

Joshua Swidzinski

Chapter 7. Thomas Gray among the Medievalists

Lotte Reinbold

Chapter 8. Queering Thomas Gray's Celticism

Rhys Kaminski-Jones

Chapter 9. Thomas Gray's Understanding and Reviving of Historical Architecture

Peter N. Lindfield

Chapter 10. Thomas Gray, Authorship, and A Catalogue of the Antiquities, Houses, Parks, Plantations, Scenes, and Situations in England and Wales

Ephraim Levinson

Chapter 11. Thomas Gray and Meteorology

Tess Somervell

Chapter 12. Thomas Gray and the Art of Transcribing Historical Manuscripts

Ruth Abbott

Chapter 13. Thomas Gray as Reader and Writer of the Natural World

Scott Mandelbrote and Edwin Rose

Index