Adrian Kempton Author

Adrian Kempton was formerly a lecturer in French, English and Comparative Literature at Queen’s University Belfast, University College Cork and the University of London Institute in Paris. He specializes in comparative eighteenth-century studies, with particular interests in epistolary writing, robinsonades, early children’s literature, salon art criticism and gardens. His publications include Survey of English Literature: From the Restoration to Pre-Romanticism, English for Science, The Mind’s Isle: Imaginary Islands in English Literature (Peter Lang, 2017) and The Epistolary Muse: Women of Letters in England and France, 1652–1802 (Peter Lang, 2017). He is also the author of the companion to this book, The Verse Novel in English: Origins, Growth and Expansion (Peter Lang, 2018).