Department of English
James Evans
Contact Information
E-mail: james_evans@uncg.edu
Office: MHRA 3107
Office Phone: 336-334-3282
At UNCG Since: 1971
Education
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania-1971
M.A. University of Pennsylvania-1968
B.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill-1967
Research Interests
Dr. Evans’s research interests are in British literature and culture of the long eighteenth century (1650-1830), especially fiction and drama, but also comic forms, gender roles, and gambling. He worked more often with late Stuart texts earlier in the decade; currently he is writing about novels and plays of the 1770s, including Burney’s Evelina and Sheridan’s The School for Scandal.
Selected Publications
- “The splendour of our golden age”: The Duchess of Mazarin and Epicurean Voluptuousness in Late Stuart England.” 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Period,forthcoming 2009.
- “Writing London in Tom Jones.” Henry Fielding in Our Time: Papers Presented at the Tercentenary Conference. Ed. J. A. Downie. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars P, 2008. 147-164.
- “Libertine Gamblers in Late Stuart Comedy.” Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 18.1 (2003): 17-30.
- “The Way of the World and The Beau Defeated: Strains of Comedy in 1700.” South Atlantic Review 68.1 (2003): 15-33.
- “A sceane of uttmost vanity”: The Spectacle of Gambling in Late Stuart Culture.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 31 (2002): 1-20.
- “An honest scar received in the service of my country”: Lismahago’s Colonial Perspective in Humphry Clinker.” Philological Quarterly 79.4 (2000): 483-99.
- “Resisting a Private Tyranny in Two Humane Comedies.” Broken Boundaries: Women & Feminism in Restoration Drama. Ed. Katherine M. Quinsey. Lexington: U P of Kentucky, 1996. 150-63.
- “Oliver Goldsmith.” Encyclopedia of British Humorists: Geoffrey Chaucer to John Cleese. Ed. Stephen H. Gale. New York: Garland Pub., 1996. 1: 452-58.
- Comedy: An Annotated Bibliography of Theory and Criticism. Metuchen: Scarecrow P, 1987.
Awards and Honors
- American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Teaching Competition Winner, for “An Inclusive Cultural History of Early Eighteenth-Century British Literature,” 1999-2000.