Professor Derek Hughes
MA, PhD
Emeritus Professor
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- Email Address
- d.w.hughes@abdn.ac.uk
- School/Department
- School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture
Biography
Derek Hughes (MA, PhD) has written extensively on seventeenth and early eighteenth century English literature, with special interests in drama, women's writing, and representations of America. He also works on the relationship between literature and music, and on comparative literature, particularly on the relationship between English, classical, and German texts. His monographs include English Drama,1660-1700 (1996), The Theatre of Aphra Behn (2001), and Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera (2007), which studies the literary treatment of human sacrifice from Homer to the present day. He has edited Women Dramatists of the Eighteenth Century (2001) and Versions of Blackness: Key Texts on Slavery from the Seventeenth Century (2007). He is currently working on a study of Wagner’s reading and has published several articles in The Wagner Journal.
- Research
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Research Overview
Greek and Latin Literature, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature, Comparative Literature, opera (especially Wagner).
- Publications
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Human Sacrifice and the Literary Imagination
Sacrifice and Modern Thought. Meszaros, J., Zachhuber, J. (eds.). Oxford University Press, pp. 231-247, 17 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersBlackness in Gobineau and Behn: Oroonoko and Racial Pseudo-Science
Women's Writing, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 204-221Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPublic Drama
The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing. Knoppers, L. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 260-271, 12 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersHuman Sacrifice on the Restoration Stage: The Case of Venice Preserv'd
Philological Quarterly, vol. 88, no. 4, pp. 365-384Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCulture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 352 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksVersions of Blackness: Key texts on slavery from the seventeenth century
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 381 pagesBooks and Reports: Books"Thinking Ignobly of the Soul": Dryden’s Heroic Plays
Literature, Readers and Dialogue: Essays by and in Reply to Douglas Jefferson. University College, Dublin Press, pp. 75-87, 12 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersAphra Behn and the Uses of History
Restoration Literature and Culture: The Female Wits: Women and Gender, pp. 181-193, 12 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersOroonoko: the Editor and the Marketplace
Aphra Behn (1640-1689): le modèle européenChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersAphra Behn's Oroonoko and New World Ethnography
A Companion to The Literatures of Colonial America. Castillo, S., Schweitzer, I. T. (eds.). Blackwell, pp. 259-274, 15 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersRape on the restoration stage
Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 225-236Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://www.jstor.org/stable/41467978
Review of performance of Lindpaintner, Der Vampyr (Bad Aibling)
Opera, vol. 56, no. 11, pp. 1336-1336Contributions to Journals: EditorialsThe Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn
Cambridge University Press. 274 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksAphra Behn and the Restoration Theatre
The Cambridge Companion to Aphra BehnChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersTheatre, Politics, and Morality
The Cambridge History of British Theatre, II, 1660 to 1895. Donohue, J. (ed.), pp. 90-107, 17 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersTragedy and Tragicomedy
The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn. Hughes, D., Todd, J. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 83-97, 15 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersAphra Behn
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. Oxford University PressChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersRace, Gender and Scholarly Practice: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
Essays in Criticism, vol. 52, pp. 1-22Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/eic/52.1.1
The Theatre of Aphra Behn
Palgrave, Basingstoke. 240 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksEconomics and Human Sacrifice: Otway's Venice Preserv'd
In: Sederi 12, (ed. Palomero,L. F. R. et al.), ValladolidChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersEighteenth-Century Women Playwrights
Pickering and Chatto, London. 1864 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksHeroic Drama and Tragicomedy
In: Blackwells' Companion to Restoration Drama (ed. Owen,S. J.), Oxford, pp. 195-210, 15 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersHuman Sacrifice in Homer and Dryden's The Indian Emperour
In: Dryden and the World of Classicism (eds. Görtschacher,W.;Klein,H. M.), Tübingen, pp. 89-98, 9 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters'Silent in th’inchanting circle”': women and language in Sir Patient Fancy
Aphra Behn (1640-1689): Identity, Alterity, Ambiguity. O'Donnell, M. A., Dhuicq, B., Leduc, G. (eds.). Harmattan, pp. 191-196, 6 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersRestoration and Settlement: 1660 and 1688
The Cambridge Companion to Restoration Theatre. Cambridge University Press, pp. 127-141, 15 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters