FRANCIS HUTTON-WILLIAMS
ABOUT
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BIOGRAPHY
Dr Francis (Frank) Hutton-Williams is a teacher, author and critic. He’s fascinated by the science and process of learning and is a member of the English Department at Latymer Upper. He completed his BA at the University of Cambridge, MPhil at Trinity College Dublin and DPhil at the University of Oxford where he was an Amelia Jackson senior scholar and postdoctoral research assistant for the Faculty of English Language and Literature. His essays and reviews have appeared in Modernist Cultures, International Yeats Studies, Irish University Review, Textual Practice, Notes and Queries, among others, and he is the author of Thomas MacGreevy and the Rise of the Irish Avant-Garde, which was commended by The Irish Times and longlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History. He is currently working on a second study entitled Owning Error: The Reformation of the Reader in Milton’s Paradise Lost and Joyce’s Dubliners, which draws upon the Constance School of Reception Aesthetics and the reader-response strategies of Hans Jauss, Stanley Fish and Margot Norris to carry on unfinished meanings and place the reader on trial. In spare time, he enjoys running and playing music. He lives in London with his wife and two daughters.
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CONCENTRATION
Twentieth-century literature and culture, especially Ireland and modernism; reader-response theory; contemporary nonfiction in the geohumanities.
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​Thomas MacGreevy and the Rise of the Irish Avant-Garde
By Francis Hutton-Williams
October 2019 | 9781782053569 | €39 £35 | Hardback | 234 x 156mm |
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REVIEWS
The Irish Times
“Timely and succinct. A first-class study.”
Irish Studies Review
“Subtly recalibrating the narrative of 20th century Irish culture, Hutton-Williams’ slim, meticulously researched and powerful volume shows how far-reaching and effective MacGreevy’s implementation of the avant-garde aesthetic was in a nervous and conservative inchoate nation.”
Review of Irish Studies in Europe
“A most welcome contribution to modernist studies and Irish cultural history. The archival research underpinning the argument undeniably constitutes one of the major strengths of the monograph.”
International Yeats Studies
“The plural value of MacGreevy’s contributions to Irish culture are validated by this timely consideration of his underappreciated public service.”
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