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Simon Bainbridge

Professor in English, Lancaster University

Simon Bainbridge's main research interest is in the relationship between the writing of the Romantic period and its historical contexts. He is the author of 'Napoleon and English Romanticism' (Cambridge University Press, 1995) and 'British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars' (Oxford University Press, 2003) and the editor of 'Romanticism: A Sourcebook'. He has published widely on the evolution of mountaineering and its literature, particularly in the Romantic period, including the monograph 'Mountaineering and British Romanticism: The Literary Cultures of Climbing, 1770-1836' (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Experience

  • –present
    Professor in English, Lancaster University