John Mullan is a Professor of English at University College London. He was General Editor of the Pickering & Chatto series Lives of the Great Romantics by Their Contemporaries, and Associate Editor for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. A regular radio broadcaster and literary journalist, he writes on contemporary fiction for the Guardian and was a judge for the 2009 Man Booker Prize. John is a specialist in eighteenth-century literature.
Books in order of publication:
Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century (Clarendon Press, 1988)
Robinson Crusoe (ed.) (Longman, 1992)
Eighteenth-century Popular Culture: A Selection (ed. with Christopher Reid) (Oxford University Press, 2000)
How Novels Work (Oxford University Press, 2006)
Lyrical Ballads (foreword) (Longman, 2007)
Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature (Princeton University Press, 2008)
What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved (Bloomsbury, 2012)
The Artful Dickens: Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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