Richard Terry is Professor
of Eighteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Sunderland,
where he has worked since 1991. He will be contributing to a multi-authored
volume on eighteenth-century depression by members of the project team,
as well as editing the collection based on the public lecture series.
He has a particular interest in the relation of depression to issues
concerning work and idleness. He has written on many of aspects of eighteenth-century
literature and culture. Poetry and the Making of the English Literary
Past 1660-1781 was published by Oxford University Press in 2001, and
Mock-Heroic from Butler to Cowper: An English Genre and Discourse came
out from Ashgate Press in 2005.