Before Depression

Professor Stuart Sim is Professor of Critical Theory in the English dept., University of Sunderland. He will be co-editing the multi-authored volume of essays, Before Depression. His research specialisms are seventeenth/eighteenth-century prose fiction, and recent critical theory (particularly postmodernism). He is currently working on a monograph for Edinburgh University Press entitled The Eighteenth-Century Novel and Contemporary Social Issues.

Professor Sim is the author or editor of 23 books, and his work has been translated into 13 languages. Amongst his recent publications are, The Discourse of Sovereignty from Hobbes to Fielding (with David Walker, 2003), Fundamentalist World: The New Dark Age of Dogma (2004), Empires of Belief: Why We Need More Scepticism and Doubt in the Twenty-First Century (2006). He is a Fellow of the English Association, and joint editor of the journal Bunyan Studies.

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The People Professor Allan Ingram Dr Clark Lawlor Professor Stuart Sim Professor Richard Terry Dr Leigh Wetherall-Dickson Diane Buie Pauline Morris	Professor Stuart Sim (Co-Director) Professor Stuart Sim is Professor of Critical Theory in the English dept., University of Sunderland. He will be co-editing the multi-authored volume of essays, Before Depression. His research specialisms are seventeenth/eighteenth-century prose fiction, and recent critical theory (particularly postmodernism). He is currently working on a monograph for Edinburgh University Press entitled The Eighteenth-Century Novel and Contemporary Social Issues. Professor Sim is the author or editor of 23 books, and his work has been translated into 13 languages. Amongst his recent publications are, The Discourse of Sovereignty from Hobbes to Fielding (with David Walker, 2003), Fundamentalist World: The New Dark Age of Dogma (2004), Empires of Belief: Why We Need More Scepticism and Doubt in the Twenty-First Century (2006). He is a Fellow of the English Association, and joint editor of the journal Bunyan Studies.