Jonathan Sachs (NHC Fellow, 2014–15; 2023–24)
Project Title, 2023–24
Slow Time
Concordia University
Project Title, 2014–15
Decline and the Depths of Time in British Romanticism
Concordia University
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Fellowship Work Summary, 2023–24
Jonathan Sachs drafted the introduction and one new chapter of his book, Slow Time: A Literary Experiment. Sachs submitted a book chapter, “Rapid Communication, Living Stones, and the Ground Beneath our Feet: Temporality at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century,” for Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: the 1800s, ed. Andrew Stauffer, Cambridge University Press; and an article, “Levantine Antiquarianism and Byron’s Childe Harold Cantos 1–2” for a special issue on “Levantine Antiquarianism” edited by Zoe Beenstock and Zur Shalev for the International Journal of the Classical Tradition. Sachs wrote a sample chapter and a book prospectus for a new biography of the British Romantic poet John Keats, now under contract with Cambridge University Press as John Keats: A Life in Ten Letters. He also wrote and submitted an application to the Insight Grants Program of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for a new project on “Media and Mobility: 19th-Century Print Culture and the Migrant Child.” The application was successful and the project is now funded from 2024–29. Finally, Sachs’s new coedited edition of Lord Byron’s poetry appeared in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series: Lord Byron: Selected Writings, eds. Jonathan Sachs and Andrew Stauffer (Oxford UP, 2023).
Fellowship Work Summary, 2014–15
Jonathan Sachs finished writing his book Decline and the Depths of Time: Historicity and the Forms of Ruin in British Romanticism and cowrote Interacting with Print, 1700–1900. He also wrote “The Historical Context,” a chapter on Jane Austen’s Emma, for The Cambridge Companion to Emma; “What Is Decline?,” a chapter for an edited volume on decline; and an article on “Slow Time, Fast Time, Deep Time.”